0774Orpheus_Mantegna

Ovid Met. 10.1-85
Apollodorus Libr. 1.3.2

Andrea Mantegna, 1430/31 - 1506. Fresco cycle depicting scenes from the life of Orpheus: "Orpheus Playing the Lyre," "Orpheus in the Underworld," "Orpheus Clubbed to Death." 1468 - 74. Camera Picta (Camera degli Sposi), Palazzo Ducale, Mantua.

This stub slide requires more research. -- CB

Lightbown 1986, no. 20, pls. 69-71.

OGCMA slides are designed by Roger T. Macfarlane for use in Classical Civilization 241 courses at Brigham Young University.
The present resource contains information assembled for The Oxford Guide to Classical Mythology in the Arts, 1300 - 1990's, edited by J. Davidson Reid (Oxford 1994), and it is used with express permission from Oxford University press.
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