0780Orpheus_Cocteau2

Ovid Met. 10.1-11.81
Verg. Georg. 4.281-fin

Jean Cocteau, "Orpheée aux Lauriers" from a series of paintings by Cocteau 1951., 80 x 65 cm, Milly-la-Foret, private collection (image from P. Mauries, Jean Cocteau (New York: Assouline, 2003).

This painting is shown on the seascape in the documentary on Santo Sospir.

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.
Address concerns or inquiries to macfarlane@byu.edu.