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| Pier Francesco Mola Bacchus and Ariadne ca. 1647-50 drawing Teylers Museum, Haarlem |
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| Pier Francesco Mola Bacchus and Ariadne ca. 1647-48 drawing Royal Collection, Great Britain |
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| Sebastiano Ricci Bacchus and Ariadne ca. 1691-94 oil on canvas Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid |
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| Anonymous copyist after Jacopo Tintoretto Bacchus and Ariadne 17th century oil on canvas Government Art Collection, London |
Names of Children
In early morning, when the sun
is vague and birds are furious
names of children float
like smoke through the empty room:
Ariadne, dark as seal skin
Ian, fair-skinned baby
Marina Terrence Alex John
after dinner pulled back from
talk of war and morals
their names glow like light
around a candle –
Jack, my rampant youngest son
Celia, my daughter who sings
but no children call from other rooms
no soft faces turn to kiss
each guest goodnight
or whisper that stars are giant's eyes
there is only the slow still wait
through the opaque night
for morning, and more names.
– Rachel Sherwood (who died in an L.A. car crash at age 25 in 1979)
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| Antoine Coypel Bacchus and Ariadne on the Isle of Naxos ca. 1693 oil on canvas Philadelphia Museum of Art |
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| Antoine Coypel and Gérard Audran Bacchus and Ariadne on the Isle of Naxos 1693 etching, engraving Philadelphia Museum of Art |
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| Bernard Lens Bacchus and Ariadne ca. 1690 mezzotint Yale Center for British Art |
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| Anonymous Italian artist of the Bolognese school Bacchus and Ariadne 17th century drawing Royal Collection, Great Britain |
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| Jacob Jordaens Bacchus discovering Ariadne ca. 1645-50 oil on canvas Museum of Fine Arts, Boston |
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| Luca Giordano after Titian The Triumph of Bacchus (approaching Ariadne) ca. 1674-77 oil on canvas Herbert Art Gallery & Museum, Coventry |
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| Luca Giordano after Titian The Triumph of Bacchus (approaching Ariadne) ca. 1682 oil on canvas Kedleston Hall, Derbyshire |
from Bacchus and Ariadne
Suddenly from a wood his dancers rush,
Leaping like wines that from the bottle gush;
Bounding they come, and twirl, and thrust on high
Their thyrsuses, as they would rouse the sky;
And hurry here and there, in loosened bands,
And trill above their heads their cymballed hands:
Some, brawny males, that almost show from far
Their forceful arms, cloudy and muscular;
Some, smoother females, who have nevertheless
Strong limbs, and hands, to fling with and to press;
And shapes, which they can bend with heavenward glare,
And tortuous wrists, and backward streaming hair.
A troop of goat-foot shapes came trampling after.
– Leigh Hunt (1819)
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| Giovanni Francesco Romanelli Bacchus and Ariadne before 1662 drawing British Museum |
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| Reinier van Persyn Busts of Bacchus and Ariadne after the antique ca. 1640 engraving Philadelphia Museum of Art |
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| Anonymous artist working in England Bacchus and Ariadne 17th century oil on canvas Maidstone Museum and Bentlif Art Gallery, Kent |