Nothing, again, could be less godlike than the face of Bacchus.

It is the face of a not remarkably good-looking model, and the head is too small both for the body and the heavy crown of leaves.
As a study of incipient intoxication, when the whole person is disturbed by drink, but human dignity has not yet yielded to a bestial impulse, this statue proves the energy of Michelangelo's imagination.
The physical beauty of his adolescent model in the limbs and body redeems the grossness of the motive by the inalienable charm of health and carnal comeliness.

Finally, the technical merits of the work cannot too strongly be insisted on.

The modelling of the thorax, the exquisite roundness and fleshiness of the thighs and arms and belly, the smooth skin-surface expressed throughout in marble, will excite admiration in all who are capable of appreciating this aspect of the statuary's art.

Michelangelo produced nothing more finished in execution, if we except the Pieta at S.Peter's.