Palazzo Antinori, Florence
May 11th - July 13th 2007

To celebrate the Antinori family's five hundred year link with the city of Florence, art and above all Palazzo Antinori, the Accademia has invited 21 contemporary artists (twenty painters and one sculptor) to create, in the language of their choice, a piece of work dedicated the god Bacchus in order to crown this special anniversary with their own special vision.

The magical alchemy of winemaking is expressed with their unique methods and preferences: sometimes in intimate, familiar tones, and other times in hyper-realistic solutions, or following the influence of Caravaggio, or again, in works echoing the English pre-Raphaelite tradition.