The Bacchanal of Andrians

The bacchanal of Andrians (in Italian Il Baccanale degli Andrii) is a painting by the Italian painter Titian.
Its realized in oil on canvas and was painted around 1523-1526, and is currently in the Museo del Prado in Madrid,
Spain. This work was commissioned by Alfonso d'Este, Duke of Ferrara, for the dressing room decoration Alabaster ,
a stay of the castle. Pictured here is a mythological theme, a bacchanal, feast of the god of wine, Bacchus. It
encompasses the island of Andros. The literary inspiration of this work comes from the work of Philostratus and
Catullus.
The subject and composition in this table refers to the Feast of the Gods, by Giovanni Bellini, Titian
although energizes the scene alive and moves upward diagonal line from the lower left corner, going up to reach the
figure of the old sleeping on the top of the right.
The whole picture shows the sensual joy of wine, including some naked, like the bottom right, figure that
resembles a Venus and that is an example of the careful composition by the author. Could be representing Ariadne
Bacchus related character.

The mythological themes and patronage of the Italian

aristocracy
Represents a mythological scene, what was already common for many artists from the second half of the
fifteenth century. The mythology was one of the favorite subjects for the aristocracy to decorate their palaces, it
was commissioned specifically Alfonso D'Este for study or reading room and recreation. The Bacchanal is the
festival to honor the god Dionysus / Bacchus, in the sixteenth century and is an ode to the pleasures of life.
The characters are stirred throughout the bottom of the canvas, a lean talking, others drink wine, other
dance, with arms and legs forming curved lines. Wine passed to each other. The reclining woman occupies the
foreground of the center of the fabric is said Violante, who the painter was in love at that time, in her cleavage is the
signature of the painter. Next to it is a score, which reads: "Whoever drinks and drinks again, do not know what it is
to drink."

TECHNICAL DATA
Author: Tiziano

Vecellio, (1488-1576)

Dimensions and support: Oil

Date and style: By

on canvas. 1.75 x 1.93 mts.

1523-1526. Cinquecento and first mannerism.

Painted for ID'Este for Alfonso called

"Camerino or alabaster studio" in his palace in Ferrara.
Patron who commissioned it:

Present location: Prado

Museum.

He belonged to the collection of Philip IV

from 1637, in which it was received along with the offering
to the goddess Venus by the same author (1518) as a gift of
Cardinal Niccolo Ludovisi.
History of the painting:

REVIEW OF THE WORK

This oil on canvas is a fine example of Renaissance painting Stage Cinquecento with reflections and Mannerist
style of the sixteenth century Venetian painting, specifically the painter Tiziano Vecellio.

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