Warren Tresidder disputes Panofsky's claim that the depiction of two animals in this painting was meant to signify that one figure had just returned, arguing the representation of those two animals was caused by Demetrius Moscus' mistranslation of Philostratus the Elder's Imagines. An urn lying on a yellow cloth in the bottom left of this painting bears the artist's signature, while one nude man entwined with snakes is inspired by the recently unearthed Laocoon statue. One figure in this painting has the Corona Borealis constellation appearing above her head representing a symbolic crown of stars, while in the foreground a King Charles spaniel barks at a satyr who drags a severed donkey's head with a string. This work was commissioned for the Alabaster Chamber by Duke Alfonso d'Este as the second in a series of mythological paintings whose other members include The Worship of Venus and The Bacchanal of the Andrians. In this painting one of the title figures jumps out of his chariot drawn by cheetahs to grab the other title character who waves in the direction of a ship on the far left belonging to her former
Warren Tresidder disputes Panofsky's claim that the depiction of two animals in this painting was meant to signify that one figure had just returned, arguing the representation of those two animals was caused by Demetrius Moscus' mistranslation of Philostratus the Elder's Imagines. An urn lying on a yellow cloth in the bottom left of this painting bears the artist's signature, while one nude man entwined with snakes is inspired by the recently unearthed Laocoon statue. One figure in this painting has the Corona Borealis constellation appearing above her head representing a symbolic crown of stars, while in the foreground a King Charles spaniel barks at a satyr who drags a severed donkey's head with a string. This work was commissioned for the Alabaster Chamber by Duke Alfonso d'Este as the second in a series of mythological paintings whose other members include The Worship of Venus and The Bacchanal of the Andrians. In this painting one of the title figures jumps out of his chariot drawn by cheetahs to grab the other title character who waves in the direction of a ship on the far left belonging to her former lover Theseus. For 10 points, name this painting in which the entourage of the God of wine stumbles upon the daughter of King Minos, a work by Titian.
Warren Tresidder disputes Panofsky's claim that the depiction of two animals in this painting was meant to signify that one figure had just returned, arguing the representation of those two animals was caused by Demetrius Moscus' mistranslation of Philostratus the Elder's Imagines.
{Bacchus} and {Ariadne}