{"id":759,"date":"2014-05-02T10:06:14","date_gmt":"2014-05-02T10:06:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vangoyourself.wpengine.com.gridhosted.co.uk\/?p=759"},"modified":"2015-06-02T11:21:47","modified_gmt":"2015-06-02T11:21:47","slug":"bacchus-and-ariadne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vangoyourself.com\/paintings\/bacchus-and-ariadne\/","title":{"rendered":"Bacchus and Ariadne"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"painting-info\">\n<p>This painting is based on a famous work by Titian of the same subject. The theme of the painting is taken from an ancient Greek myth. In this scene the hero Theseus sails away after abandoning Ariadne on the island of Naxos. Bacchus, the god of wine and revelry, arrives to comfort her.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"extra\">\n<div id=\"read-more\">\n<p>Luca Giordano painted this for the Rosso family in Florence. It covered an entire wall in their palace. It was later sold and brought to England. Edward Ellice, MP for Coventry, gave the painting to the city in 1855. He hoped it would be the start of a collection for a new art gallery. One story says that Ellice received the painting as part payment of a gambling debt.<\/p>\n<p>Source of the description: <a title=\"Article Bacchus Ariadne on BBC Arts\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/arts\/yourpaintings\/paintings\/bacchus-and-ariadne-55369\" target=\"_blank\">BBC Arts<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This painting is based on a famous work by Titian of the same subject. The theme of the painting is taken from an ancient Greek myth. In this scene the hero Theseus sails away after abandoning Ariadne on the island of Naxos. Bacchus, the god of wine and revelry, arrives to comfort her. Luca Giordano &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/vangoyourself.com\/paintings\/bacchus-and-ariadne\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Bacchus and Ariadne<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":760,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vangoyourself.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vangoyourself.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vangoyourself.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vangoyourself.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vangoyourself.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vangoyourself.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vangoyourself.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vangoyourself.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vangoyourself.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}