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Bacchus Finding Ariadne on Naxos
Adriaen de Vriesca. 1611
Rijksmuseum
Amsterdam, Netherlands
The god Bacchus, accompanied by a satyr with a torch, discovers the sleeping Ariadne and falls in love with the princess. It is hardly a coincidence that Cupid, the god of love, is seated in the foreground. De Vries was court sculptor to the eccentric Emperor Rudolf II, a lover of mildly erotic art. This relief was thus most likely made for the emperor or someone in the
imperial household.
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- Title: Bacchus Finding Ariadne on Naxos
- Creator: Vries, Adriaen de
- Date Created: ca. 1611
- Physical Dimensions: brons
- Rights: http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
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