Gerard de Lairesse, 1680 - Bacchus and Ariadne - fine art print

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• Acrylic glass print: An acrylic glass print, often denoted as a an art print on plexiglass, will turn your favorite original artwork into beautiful home decoration. What is more, it forms a good alternative to canvas or dibond art prints. Your own version of the work of art is printed with the help of state-of-the-art UV direct printing technology. The great upside of an acrylic glass fine art copy is that contrasts as well as painting details will be identifiable thanks to the subtle gradation of the picture. The acrylic glass protects your selected art print against light and heat for decades.
• Canvas print: A canvas print is a printed canvas stretched on a wooden stretcher. It produces the exclusive impression of three dimensionality. The great advantage of canvas prints is that they are relatively low in weight, which means that it is quite simple to hang up the Canvas print without any wall-mounts. Therefore, canvas prints are suitable for any type of wall.
• Aluminium print (aluminium dibond): These are metal prints on aluminium dibond with an impressive effect of depth, which makes a modern impression thanks to a non-reflective surface. The bright & white parts of the artpiece shine with a silk gloss but without any glare. The colors of the print are luminous and vivid in the highest definition, the fine details of the print are crisp and clear.
• The poster print (canvas material): The poster is a printed sheet of canvas paper with a fine surface finish. Please bear in mind, that depending on the absolute size of the poster we add a white margin of approximately 2-6cm around the artwork in order to facilitate the framing with a custom frame.

Disclaimer: We try what we can to describe our art products with as many details as it is possible and to showcase them visually. Nonetheless, the tone of the printed materials and the print result may differ somehwat from the image on the monitor. Depending on your settings of your screen and the condition of the surface, colors may not be printed one hundret percent realistically. Considering that our art reproductions are printed and processed by hand, there might also be minor differences in the exact position and the size of the motif.

General description from the museum (© Copyright - by Rijksmuseum - www.rijksmuseum.nl)

Ovid described the following scene in his Metamorphoses: on the island of Naxos, Bacchus, the god of wine, chances upon the heartbroken and abandoned Ariadne. He takes her as his wife and gives her a crown of seven stars, which he subsequently casts up into the heavens. Lairesse revived Dutch painting with a classicizing style that was inspired by works from Greek and Roman antiquity.

Bacchus and Ariadne is a piece of art by Gerard de Lairesse in 1680. This work of art is in the the Rijksmuseum's art collection, which is the largest museum for Dutch art and history from the Middle Ages to the present day. With courtesy of Rijksmuseum (public domain license).The creditline of the artpiece is the following: . In addition to this, the alignment of the digital reproduction is in portrait format and has a ratio of 1 : 2, which implies that the length is 50% shorter than the width. The engraver, painter, art historian, decorator Gerard de Lairesse was an artist from the Netherlands, whose style can primarily be assigned to Baroque. The European artist was born in 1641 in Liege, Liege province, Wallonia, Belgium and died at the age of 70 in 1711.

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