The Bacchanal of the Andrians [SEP] creator
The Bacchanal of the Andrians
The Bacchanal of the Andrians is an oil painting by Titian. It is signed ".[aciebat]" and is dated to 1523–1526.
The painting is now held at the Museo del Prado in Madrid, but it was commissioned by Alfonso I d'Este for his "Camerini d'alabastro" ('chambers of alabaster') in Ferrara. The decorative programme included other major paintings celebrating Bacchus and Venus, the gods of wine and love.
"The Bacchanal of the Andrians" has been admired by
. The "Virgin with the Rabbit", in The Louvre, is the finished type of these pictures. Another work of the same period, also in the Louvre, is the "Entombment". This was also the period of the three large and famous mythological scenes for the "camerino" of Alfonso d'Este in Ferrara, "The Bacchanal of the Andrians" and the "Worship of Venus" in the Museo del Prado, and the "Bacchus and Ariadne" (1520–23) in London, "perhaps the most