And this palace of the Doges is no training-place for humility; for if its walls do not bear witness, glorious and chromatic, to the greatness of a Doge, it is merely because the greatness of the Republic requires the space.

In this room, for example, we find Tiepolo allegorizing Venice as the conqueror of the sea.
And now for the jewel of art in the Doges' Palace.

It is in the room opposite the door by which we entered--the ante-room of the Sala del Collegio--and it faces us, on the left as we enter: the "Bacchus and Ariadne" of Tintoretto.

We have all seen the "Bacchus and Ariadne" of Titian in our National Gallery, that superb, burning, synchronized epitome of the whole legend.

Tintoretto has chosen one incident only; Love bringing Bacchus to the arms of Ariadne and at the same moment placing on his head a starry coronal.