'The greatest depiction of love at first sight'

February 12 2016

Video: National Gallery

As part of their #PaintedLovers series, here National Gallery curator Matthias Wivel argues that Titian's Bacchus and Ariadne shows the greatest depicton of 'love at first' sight in art.

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