0790OrpheusEurydice

0790OrpheusEurydice_Crawford

contemporary analysis
OGCMA s.v. "Orpheus and Eurydice"
Classical Sources:
Plato, Symposium, 179c-e
Diodorus Siculus, Bibl., 4.25.4, 81-82
Vergil, Georgics 4.315-558
Ovid Metamorphoses 10.1-85, 11.66
Apollodorus Libr. 1.3.2
Hyginus Poet. Astron. 2.7

Thomas Crawford, "Orpheus and Cerberus," marble sculpture group, 1839 - 1843. Boston Athenaeum, on loan to Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

His first, and as it turns out likely his finest, contribution to American art, Crawford's Orpheus is analyzed bythe contemporaryin a publication of 1844: The Orpheus and other works of sculpture by Thomas Crawford of Rome now exhibiting at the the Athenaeum (1844). click

W.L. Vance in America's Rome: Classical Rome (Yale 1989): 354 ff. offers background and analysis, including some discussion of reception and nachleben.

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.