Le Sueur’s painting Bacchus and Ariadne not only has the depth of Baroque beauty with the colors, lights and figures, but a complex interwoven set of ideas and symbols as well. The culmination of all of these facets of artistry and painting created a work of everlasting brilliance. This analysis is only my interpretation of how this painting fits into the Baroque category and why it might have been painted. We examine paintings while thinking about the society in which they were created and, sometime unconsciously, with our present culture in mind. When I first saw this painting I wondered who are originally owned the piece. I wondered who had commissioned it, and if this was for propaganda or for pleasure. I feel that I have come a bit closer
