Bacchino fountain, bronze. Representing the god of intoxication and wine Bacchus as an infant. Asvthe son of Jupiter and the mortal woman Semele, Bacchus was raised by nymphs in a mountainvcave in the mythical land of Nysa. One of Bacchus’ strongest attributes is the grapes. Replica of anvoriginal made by the Italian sculptor Ferdinando Tacca (1619–1686), who sculpted the bronzevfigure of a young bacchus sitting among bunches of grapes in 1653. The original, which is one ofvthe city’s symbols, still stands today in Piazza del Comune in Prato outside Florence in front of the Palazzo Pretorio.