Orpheus and Eurydice Photos
Orpheus and Eurydice Photos
This was pre-Underworld drama. Check out that lyre! [Nicolas Poussin, Orphée et Eurydice (1650-1651)]
Snake Bite
Ouch! [Titian, Orpheus and Eurydice (c. 1508)]
Charming the Masses
We told you, even the camels loved his music! [Aelbert Cuyp, Orpheus with Animals in a Landscape (c. 1640)]
Don't Look Back
On their way out. So close, but yet so far. [Peter Paul Rubens, Orpheus and Eurydice (1636-1638)]
This Way, My Dear
This seems to be one of the calmer paintings of Orpheus leading Eurydice out of Hades. If that's what the Underworld looked like, we wouldn't mind a vacation there. [Corot, Orpheus (1830)]
Here Today, Gauze Tomorrow
Eurydice slipping away. Sorry, Orpheus, you're not going to catch her (spoiler alert!). [Christian Gottlieb Kratzenstein, Orpheus and Eurydice (1806)]