Round 5: Tossup 22

In this painting, a woman draped in a blue mantle reaches her right arm towards the horizon as she turns her face to her right, while a narrow red cloth wrapped around her accentuates her twisted posture. In this painting, the artist’s signature is included on a gold cup lying on a yellow cloth crumpled up on the ground behind a King Charles (-5[1])Spaniel, who may be the commissioner’s pet. Ovid and Catullus are the two main sources for this painting, which depicts Corona Borealis in an (*) ultramarine sky while a small ship heads away to the horizon. In this painting, a man wrapped with a snake and a woman clashing cymbals march in a raucous procession behind a naked god who leaps out of a chariot pulled by two cheetahs. For 10 points, name this painting by Titian (-5[1])depicting the god of wine encountering a woman on Naxos. ■END■ (10[4])

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