0791OrpheusEurydice

0791OrpheusEurydice_Feuerbach

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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

Anselm Feuerbach, “Orpheus and Eurydice,” 1869, Neue Galerie in der Stallburg, Kunsthistoriches Museum.

Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe, Anselm Feuerbach, 1829-1880: Gemälde und Zeichmungen, (1976): no. 52.

Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Victorian High Renaissance, (Minneapolis: Minneapolish Institute of Arts, 1978): fig. 12.

Contributions by Alissa

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.