Bacchus and Ariadne
1520-3 · Oil on canvas
Dimensions 176.5 × 191 cm
Collection: National Gallery, London
Theseus, whose ship is shown in the distance, has just left Ariadne on Naxos, when Bacchus arrives, jumping from his chariot drawn by two cheetahs, falling immediately in love with Ariadne. Bacchus raised her to heaven. The constellation Corona Borealis, Bacchus's crowning gift to her, is shown in the sky above her head.
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Bacchus and Ariadne (1520-3) by Tiziano Vecellio Titian, oil on canvas, from the National Gallery, London collection.
About Tiziano Vecellio Titian
(c. 1488/90 – 27 August 1576) Tiziano Vecelli or Vecellio known in English as Titian, was an Italian painter during the Renaissance, considered the most important member of the 16th-century Venetian school. He was born in Pieve di Cadore, near Belluno, then in the Republic of Venice).
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