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BACCHANTE anil their companions celebrating an orgy ; bears a large vase. Engraved by E. Beis- Ariatlne in foreground at right, insensible son ; V. della Bruna. Wicar, ii. Part 13 ; from wine ; in the distance the galley of Gal. du PaL Pitti, i. PI. G7; Lavice, 68. Theseus sailing away. Painted in 1519-20 for Duke Alfonso of Ferrara ; same subse- j By Velasquez. See Jiorrachos. By Leonardo da Finci(?), Louvre ; canvas, quent history as the Ven us Worship. Copy by H. 5 ft. 10 in. x 3 ft. 9 in. Seated on a stone, Rubens in Royal Palace, Stockholm. C. & C., Titian, i. 231, 265 ;Sainsbury Papers, 823. crowned with vine leaves and leaning on a thyrsus. From collection of Louis XTV. BACCHANTE, Annibale Carracci, Uffizi, i Ascribed, in inventory of the Restoration, Florence ; canvas, life size. A bacchante, to a scholar of Leonardo. Passavant thinks seen from behind, nearly nude, half reclining i it was originally a John Baptist in the Des- under a tree, with a fly- ing Cupid crowning her with a wreath ; at left, the god Pan offers her a dish of grapes, while a little satyr embraces one of her legs. Paint- ed for the Bologuetti family, who sold it to the Medici. Copy, for- merly in Faruese collec- tion, now in Naples Mu- seum. Malvasia, i. 378 ; Molini, i. 53; Soc. Ed. & Paris, Gall, de Firenze, PI. 97; Museo Borbon- ico, viii. PL 47 ; Lasinio, i. PI. 16. By George Romney, National Gallery, Lon- don ; canvas, H. 1 ft. 7 in. x 1 ft. 3 in. Bust por- trait of Emma Lyon, af- terwards Lady Hamilton, wife of Sir Wm. Hamilton and mistress of Lord Nelson. Painted about 1786 ; Vernon Collection. Engraved by C. Hall. Art Journal (1854), 88. Bacchanal, Giovanni Bellini and Titian, Alnwick Castle, England. BA.CCHIACCHA. See Ulx-rtini. BACCHUS or Dionysus, ancient pictures. See Ariatidett, Ctesilochus ; Liber, see Echion, Nicias. By Guido Reni, Palazzo Pitti, Florence ; ert, as there is a picture like it, save the crown of leaves, representing the Saint, in S. Eustorgo, Milan ; the vine leaves and the thyrsus are evidently additions. Vasari, ed. Mil., iv. 60; Villot," Louvre; Rigollot, Hist, des Arts, &c., j. 288 ; Heaton, 255 ; Gaz. des Beaux Arts (1866), xx. 47. BACCHUS AND ARIADNE, Claude Lor- rain. See Ulysses and Nausicaa. By Tintoretto, Palazzo Ducale, Venice ; canvas, H. 2 ft. 8 in. x 2 ft. 2 in. Bacchus, ' canvas. Figures nude. Bacchus, crowned half length, crowned with grapes and leaves, bearing a salver and cup ; a wicker flask hangs from his finger ; in front, a nude boy with vine leaves, and with leaves and grapes about his loins, stands in the water at the edge of tho sea, offering a ring to Ariadne, 87