7/2/2023 0 Comments Eurydice hades art![]() ![]() ![]() Yet, as the quote above conveyed, Orpheus tragically broke his deal with the god of the dead. In the artwork, Orpheus can be seen leading Eurydice out of the darkness, guiding her toward the glimmer of light. Such, then, is the myth that inspired Anselm Feuerbach’s painting. But Orpheus failed to obey him, and turning round, he caught sight of his wife, and she had to return below” (Apollodorus, Library, I.3.2). Pluto promised to do so, provided that on the way up Orpheus never looked round until he had arrived back at his house. When his wife, Eurydice, died from a snake-bite, he went down to Hades in the hope of bringing her up, and persuaded Pluto to send her back to earth. “ Orpheus, who practised the art of singing to the lyre, and set rocks and trees in motion by his singing. A concise summery of the myth was recorded by a scholar known as Pseudo-Apollodorus (c. It is the story of Orpheus journeying into the underworld in an attempt to bring Eurydice back from the dead. This sad event, no matter how tragic it was on its own, was actually just the prelude to a much more elaborate myth-which happens to be the myth depicted above in Anselm Feuerbach’s painting. Suddenly fell down dead with the fangs of a snake in her ankle. While taking a stroll through the grass with her band of attendant naiads, ![]() “The outcome was even worse than foreshadowed: the newly-wed bride, 43 BCE-17 CE), a Roman poet, described this mythical death scene: On or around their wedding day, Eurydice was heartbreakingly bitten by a venomous snake and she died from the wound. Yet, before they could live happily ever after, tragedy unfairly struck their love story. As Orpheus reciprocated her love, the two decided to become married. Following behind Orpheus is Eurydice-a nymph who fell in love with the legendary musician. The instrument-wielding man on the left is Orpheus, a superstar musician of ancient Greek mythology who had the power to entrance everything in creation (animate and inanimate, mortal and divine) whenever he chose to play and sing. 1829-1880), was inspired by the sad and tragic myth of Orpheus and Eurydice. This painting, by the German artist Anselm Feuerbach (c. ![]()
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