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A RECTANGULAR CARVED MARBLE RELIEF OF THE TRIUMPH OF BACCHUS
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A RECTANGULAR CARVED MARBLE RELIEF OF THE TRIUMPH OF BACCHUS

ITALIAN, EARLY 19TH CENTURY

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A RECTANGULAR CARVED MARBLE RELIEF OF THE TRIUMPH OF BACCHUS
ITALIAN, EARLY 19TH CENTURY
Depicting Bacchus and Ariadne in a leopard-drawn chariot, with attending fauns and putto; very minor chips
24¾ x 51 3/16 in. (63 x 130 cm.)
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Triumphal processions of pagan gods were images that were not in short supply in the classical iconography of antiquity, the renaissance and the neo-classical period. The present marble relief, depicting the Triumphal Procession of Bacchus, is such an example, depicting the god of fertility and wine, with his cohorts in a typical state of physical abandonment. Bacchus here is depicted drunk and seated on a leopard-drawn chariot, and is accompanied by King Minos of Crete's daughter, Ariadne, and cup-bearing satyrs and musicians. The legend goes that after Theseus abandoned Ariadne on Naxos, Bacchus came to her rescue arriving on a chariot drawn by leopards and then married her.