home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
/ Computer Life: SuperPac / SuperPac (Computer Life Magazine)(Ziff-Davis)(1995).ISO / pc / demos / usoft / 3 / artgdemo.mmm / 001.png < prev    next >
Portable Network Graphic  |  1994-02-07  |  95.2 KB  |  640x461  |  8-bit (186 colors)
  nsfw: racy: Possible
   ocr: Bacchus and Ariadne PAINTINGS Narrative Sources The programme of the series was probably devised by a *humanist scholar in the service of Alfonso d'Este. The subject of Bacchus and Ariadne is derived from the classical authors *Ovid and Catullus. *Bacchus, god of wine, emerges with his followers from a landscape to the right. Falling in love with Ariadne on sight, he leaps from his chariot, drawn by two cheetahs, towards her. Ariadne had been abandoned on the Greek island of Naxos by Theseus, whose ship is shown in the distance. The picture shows her initial fear of Bacchus. He raised her to h ...