The splendid portrait titled "Sick Bacchus" shows us a young man with bluish color of the face, especially lips cyanosis.
Art historians and doctors have indulged in a number of interpretations.
Hypothesis 1: This is a portrait of the painter, since it was painted just at a time when Caravaggio was ill. Cyanosis was the expression of some heart disease?
Hypothesis 2: The blue-green hue of the image is due to an incorrect restoration occurred in the past.
Reference: Caravaggio Sick Bacchus (1593-94), Galleria Borghese, Rome
http://www.wga.hu/art/c/caravagg/01/01bacch.jpg
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