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   ocr: Bacchus and Ariadne PAINTINGS TITIAN 1522-3 Signed on the urn, left foreground: ticianvs f. Canvas, 175.2x1 190.5cm No.. 35, Purchased, 1826. The painting is one of a famous series by > Bellini, Titian and the Ferrarese artist > Dosso Dossi, commissioned for the Camerino d'Alabastro, (the. Alabaster Room) in the Castle in Ferrara. The: series was ordered by Alfonso d'Este, Duke of Ferrara, who also tried to get > Michelangelo and > Raphael to contribute in the 1510s. Titian's painting was in fact a substitiute for one with a similar subject which the Duke had commissioned from Raphael. NEXTPAG ...