Bacchus And Ariadne by Titian Antique Print Picture 1910 #89

Description: Bacchus And Ariadne by Titian Antique Print 1910A colour print from a disbound art book from 1910. The reverse side is blank. Suitable for framing, the actual picture size is approx 7.75" x 7" or 19.5 cm x 17.5 cm printed on textured paper and one side mounted to heavyweight textured paper which forms a border. Page size including border mount approx 10.625" x 8.875" This is an antique print from 1910 not a modern copy and does show signs of age or previous use commensurate with the age of the print including foxing or marks on the surrounding mount. Please view the scans as they form part of the description. All pictures will be sent bagged and in a board backed envelope for protection in transit. While every care is taken to ensure my scans or photos accurately represent the item offered for sale, due to differences in monitors and internet pages my pictures may not be an exact match in brightness or contrast to the actual item. Text taken from the opposite page. Please note this cannot be supplied with the print. Any spelling errors are due to the OCR program used. BACCHUS AND ARIADNE By TITIAN (1477-1576) IN THE NATIONAL GALLERY, LONDON Sir Edward Poynter has written of this picture, "It is, perhaps, Titian's masterpiece as a composition of figures and landscape, and in its combination of all the qualities which go to make a great work of art is possibly the finest picture in the world." It was probably painted in 1523 for the Duke Alphonso of Ferrara, and was one of a set of four, of which two are now in the Prado, at Madrid, and the fourth in a private collection in England. The point in the story of Ariadne which is here illustrated is the moment of the first sight by the god Bacchus of the deserted Ariadne on the island of Naxos; under impulse of his passion Bacchus leaps from his chariot. In his accompanying band of nymphs, satyrs, and roysterers is the drunken god Silenus seated on an ass. Among the most charming figures in the composition is the little child faun to which Ruskin refers incidentally in " The Elements of Drawing," but only to draw attention to the points of light on the white flower in his wreath. Other items of interest in this great work are the wondrously glowing landscape with its strip of sea, on which is seen the sails of the departing ship which carries Theseus from the betrayed princess. In the sky above Ariadne is seen the constellation of the golden crown which Bacchus presented to her when she became his bride. Tiziano Vecellio, although now accounted principal of the Venetian school, was in his lifetime called "Da Cadore" after his birthplace, but his other name "Ii Divino" more properly reveals the high estimation in which he was held by his contemporaries. It was as a child that he was sent into Venice to study art, which he did principally under Gentile and Giovanni Bellini, but has he not himself left it on record that he never ceased to the end of his life to learn something new of the art which he so greatly loved ? When at seventy years of age he first visited Rome and met Michelangelo, did he not say of his visit, " I greatly improved after I had been to Rome"? He continued to work up to the very last, and when the plague seized him for death in his ninety-ninth year, it is said that he even then had a pencil in his hand. Writing with regard to a picture he had painted for Federigo Gonzaga, Titian once thus expressed himself :-" If truly my hand with the paint brush had corresponded to the grand conception I had in my mind and soul, I might think that I had been able to show the desire I have to serve your Excellency." So we can imagine that this " Bacchus and Ariadne," great as it is, is nothing to the vision which the "Grand old Man of Art" first had of the scene. What a soul stirring pageantry of form and colour that must have been ! But we are satisfied even with this conception of it, though we know that the hand of the artist did not fully respond to the dictates of his soul.

Price: 3.49 GBP

Location: Dereham

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