Marriage of Bacchus and Ariadne 1756 Galliari Bernardino, 1707/ 1794, Italy, Italian,
. Ariadne, Daughter of King Minos of Crete, helped Theseus, whom she loved, to escape from the labyrinth with the aid of a ball of string, abandoned by him on the island of Naxos. Here Bacchus came to her rescue. Bacchus took her jewelled crown and flung it into the heavens where it became a constellation. Ariadne was readily consoled by him and they were married shortly afterwards. Ovid's Metamorphoses
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