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Summary[edit]

Titian: Bacchus and Ariadne

Artist



Alternative names	Tiziano Vecelli; Tiziano Vecellio
Description	Italian painter, fresco painter and draughtsman
Date of birth/death	between 1485 and 1490 date QS:P,+1450-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1319,+1485-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1490-00-00T00:00:00Z/9	27 August 1576
Location of birth/death	Pieve di Cadore	Venice
Work location	Venice (1498), Ferrara, Mantua, Padua (1511), Milan (1540), Rome (1545–1546), Florence (1546), Augsburg (1548, 1550–1551), Constantinople (today Istanbul) (1555-1557)
Authority control	: Q47551 VIAF: 109266837 ISNI: 0000 0001 0787 9191 ULAN: 500031075 LCCN: n79074519 NLA: 36049955 WorldCat

Title

Bacchus and Ariadne

Object type

painting

Description

English: 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.

Date

from 1520 until 1523

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

176.5 × 191 cm (69.4 × 75.1 ″)

Collection

National Gallery

	Native name	National Gallery
	Location	London
	Coordinates	51° 30′ 31.33″ N, 0° 07′ 42.37″ W
	Established	1824
	Web page	nationalgallery.org.uk
	Authority control	: Q180788 VIAF: 144868906 ISNI: 0000 0001 2342 2001 ULAN: 500125190 LCCN: n80081622 NLA: 35311349 WorldCat

Current location

room 12 Titian and Venice 1500-1530

Accession number

NG35

Credit line

1826: purchased

Inscriptions

signed

Notes

English: The painting belongs to a series commissioned from Bellini, Titian and Dosso Dossi, for the Camerino d'Alabastro, (Alabaster Room) in the Ducal Palace, Ferrara, by Alfonso d'Este, Duke of Ferrara, who in 1510 even tried commissions to Michelangelo and Raphael. This painting substitutes a painting from Raphael. Between 1518-1525 Titian painted also Worship of Venus and Bacchanal of the Andrians, both Prado for the Alabaster Room. In 1514 Giovanni Bellini painted 'Feast of the Gods'.

References

Arthur Lucas, George Pleysters: Titian's Bacchus and Ariadne (pdf)
YgEfKILzDadyCg at Google Cultural Institute, zoom level maximum

Authority control

: Q1206860
BNF: 16255148v

Source/Photographer

National Gallery

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current	03:15, 3 February 2014	4,670 × 4,226 (12.95 MB)	Oursana (talk \| contribs)	Reverted to version as of 23:06, 29 January 2013
	03:11, 3 February 2014	4,670 × 4,226 (9.49 MB)	Oursana (talk \| contribs)	Reverted to version as of 01:31, 28 May 2010
	03:11, 3 February 2014	4,670 × 4,226 (9.49 MB)	Oursana (talk \| contribs)	Reverted to version as of 01:31, 28 May 2010
	23:06, 29 January 2013	4,670 × 4,226 (12.95 MB)	Slick-o-bot (talk \| contribs)	Bot: convert to a non-interlaced jpeg (see bug #17645)
	01:31, 28 May 2010	4,670 × 4,226 (9.49 MB)	Olpl (talk \| contribs)	Help:Zoomable_images#National_Gallery_collection
	15:30, 9 April 2009	781 × 707 (148 KB)	Calliopejen1 (talk \| contribs)	less compressed
	10:34, 4 March 2006	781 × 707 (95 KB)	Ham II (talk \| contribs)	'''''Bacchus and Ariadne'''' by Titian National Gallery, London {{Creator:Tizian}}