There is an intriguing ambiguity to the half-naked peasant youth posing as a Bacchus for Caravaggio (1589), but nothing complicated about the robust sexiness of the Rubens Bacchanale.
Rubens painted the Bacchanale a year after Caravaggio's Bacchus.
mnli hypothesis: Rubens painted the Bacchanale a year after Caravaggio's Bacchus. premise: There is an intriguing ambiguity to the half-naked peasant youth posing as a Bacchus for Caravaggio (1589), but nothing complicated about the robust sexiness of the Rubens Bacchanale.