A handsome young man with impressive hair (usually tresses falling below his shoulders) and a wreath of ivy on his head. In his hand he was holding a "thyrsos", which was a light staff wrapped with leaves of ivy and a pine cone on its top.
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Title: Midas and Bacchus Dionysus (Bacchus), accompanied with Midas, the King of Phrygia who could turn everything he touched into gold. Type: Painting Creator: Nicolas Poussin (1594-1665) Time period: 1630
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