# Orpheus and the Bacchantes [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [LAZZARINI, Gregorio]() - Date: 1651-1700 - Technique: Oil on canvas ## Commentary Orpheus and the Bacchantes c. 1710 Oil on canvas Museo del Settecento Veneziano, Ca' Rezzonico, Venice This interesting work by the teacher of Giambattista Tiepolo shows how the taste for paintings of mythological and literary subjects continued from the Renaissance into the luminous art of the eighteenth century. <p> <table align=left cellpadding=5 border=1 width=320 bgcolor="\#99cccc"> <tr valign=middle><td><img src="/support/gif/listen.gif" border=0 valign=middle> Suggested listening \(streaming mp3, 7 minutes\):<br><a href="\#" onClick="w=window.open \('/music1/18\_cent/gluck\_orfeo.html', 'newWin', 'scrollbars=yes,status=no,dependent=yes,screenX=0,screenY=0,width=350,height=350'\);w.opener=this;w.focus\(\);return true"><b>Cristoph Willibald Gluck: Orfeo, Act I, Orpheus' aria in G Major</b></a> </td></tr></table> ## Related artworks - [Angelica and Medorus]() - [Dido and the Bull's Hide]() - [Dog Observing a Lizard]() - [Doge Morosini Offers the Reconquered Morea to Venice]() - [Hercules and Omphale]() - [Jael and Sisera]() - [Merit Offers the Command to Doge Morosini]() - [Orpheus and the Bacchantes \(detail\)]() - [Orpheus and the Bacchantes \(detail\)]() - [Rinaldo and Armida]() - [Rinaldo and Armida]() - [Rinaldo and Armida]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()