0799OrpheusDeath

0799OrpheusDeath_Moreau

Ovid Met. 10.1-85
Apollodorus Libr. 1.3.2

Gustave Moreau, “Orpheus,” (“A Girl Reverently Gathers Up the Head of Orpheus and His Lyre…”) 1865, Musee d’Orsay, Paris, no R.F. 104.

Pierre-Louis Mathieu, Gustave Moreau, Translated by James Emmons (Boston: New York Graphic Society, 1976): no. 71.

Musee du Louvre, Catalogue summaire illustre des peintures du Musee du Louvre (et du Musee d’Orsay), vol. 4 (Paris: Editions de la Reunion des Musees Nationaux, 1986): 113.

Contributions by Nathaniel

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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