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Titian's Bacchus and Ariadne
Credit: TitianTitian's painting Bacchus and Ariadne (1522–23) which depicts Bacchus's arrival on the Island of Naxos. Over the centuries, the scene has formed the climax of many operas from Monteverdi's L'Arianna (1608) to Richard Strauss's Ariadne auf Naxos (1912).