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Bacchus and Ariadne
Also titled Bacchus en Ariadne
Manufacture Royale des Gobelins
c. 1680 - c. 1684
- Medium
- wool, silk
- Classification
- tapestry
- Dimensions
- height 314 cm x height 316 cm x width 242.5 cm x width 239 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed
About this work
Ariadne, the daughter of King Minos of Crete, complained to Bacchus, the god of wine, that she had been abandoned on the island of Naxos by her lover Theseus. Bacchus is here holding Ariadne’s diadem. He will cast it up into the sky, where it will turn into a constellation.
