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Join the roomBacchus and Ariadne is an 1820 oil painting by the French artist Antoine-Jean Gros. Drawing on the traditions of the history painting, it depicts the mythological Ancient Greek figures Bacchus and Ariadne. The latter is being consoled after her lover Theseus abandoned her on the island of Naxos.
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