Venetian Renaissance · 1523
Titian c. 1488–1576
National Gallery · London
The wine-god Bacchus leaps from his chariot toward the abandoned Ariadne — Titian's explosion of movement and ultramarine sky.
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Before you stretches one of the great mythological paintings of the Renaissance. Titian completed this in 1523 for Alfonso d'Este's camerino in Ferrara — a private room of classical allegories. The world divides at a glance: sea and loneliness on the left, forest and ecstasy on the right, and in between, a moment of myth made breathtakingly physical.
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