29/08/2018

1

Orpheus: Life After Death

Apollo and Artemis Brygos potter Attic Red Figure cup c. 470 BC, Louvre

Apollo West Pediment Olympia c. 460 BC (copy in Munich)

Three Roman images of Apollo with a lyre from Rome, Berlin and NaplesThe Apollo Belvedere Roman copy of Hellenistic original discovered 1489

Bernini’s Apollo and Daphne, BrogheseGallery Rome 1622-5

Apollo and Artemis killing the children of Niobe by David 1772, Dallas

The Nine Muses on Roman coin and sarcophagus

29/08/2018

2

Urania and Calliope holding the Odyssey by Vouet c. 1634, National Gallery WashingtonApollo and the Muses on Mount Helicon by Claude 1680, Boston

Linus teaching Iphicles Attic Red Figure Vessel Heracles killing Linus Attic Red Figure Cup

Madness of Lycurgus killing Ambrosia Greek mosaic C2nd BC, Delos

Madness of Lycurgus killing Ambrosia Roman mosaic from Herculaneum, Naples

29/08/2018

3

Leivithra Acropolis Olympus from Litichoro

Mount Parnassus Etruscan Amphora and Fresco depicting Orpheus

Orpheus with Thracians Bell Krater c. 440 BC

Orpheus and the wild beasts Roman mosaics, Arles and Porto Torres

29/08/2018

4

Orpheus and the wild beasts Roman mosaics, Bardo and PalermoOrpheus and the wild beasts Byzantine sculpture, Athens

Orpheus Coin from Cyzicus

Christ as Orpheus in Catacombs Rome

Christine de Pisan, Epître d'Othéa Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cologny

Apollo and the Muses with Dionisiacbelow Ivory plaque from cathedral of St Etienne

Auchinleck Manuscript of Sir Orfeo c. 1330

Orpheus and Eurydice, In the Underworld and Death Frescos by Mantegna 1465-1474, Camera PictaDucal Palace Mantua

29/08/2018

5

Bronze Medal Orpheus and the wild beasts c. 1500

Bronze Plaque Orpheus and the wild beasts c. 1500

Orpheus and the wild beasts by Hans Leu 1519 Basel

Orpheus and the wild beasts Maiolica Plates, Musee de Loire C18th and Arezzo c. 1550Orpheus playing the viol Maiolica plates, Louvre and Arezzo

Cosimo de’ Medici as Orpheus by Bronzino 1537-9

Virginal by Dominicus Venetus, Venice c. 1566, German National Museum Nuremberg

29/08/2018

6

Herri Met de Bles Orpheus in Hades 1519-50, de Young MuseumJacob Hoefnagel Orpheus Charming the Animals 1613, Morgan Library

Orpheus with a Violin Cesare Gannaric. 1637, Bologna

Rubens Education of Marie de’ Medici with Orpheus, Minerva, Mercury and the Graces 1622, Louvre

Aelbert Cuyp Orpheus with Animals in a Landscape 1640

Luca Giordano Orpheus Charming the Animals c. 1697, Madrid

Jacob Savery Orpheus among the animals 1601, Darmstadt

29/08/2018

7

Roelandt Savery Orpheus Charming the Animals 1628, National GallerySinibaldo Scorza Orpheus Charming the Animals c. 1615, Blanton Museum Austin Texas

Two gentlemen wearing hats debating with a globe and geometrical instruments. One of the gentleman points upward where Orpheus sits on a cloud with his lyre. H. Grotii et aliorumDissertationes de studiis instituendis.

Poussin Landscape with Orpheus 1650s, Warsaw

Orpheus Strasbourg 1764

Thomas Wakley shown as Orpheus with his lyre, opposing the Literary Copyright Act of 1842 on the grounds that he could write poetry according to a recipe and British tradesmen offering shoddy coats for sale, Punch

29/08/2018

8

Nymphs Listening to the Songs of Orpheus, 1853 by Charles Jalabert

Orpheus charming the animals by Gustave Surand c. 1890, Private Collection

Orpheus charming the animals by Gustave Surand 1904, Private Collection Károly Ferenczy Orpheus 1894

George de Forest Brush Orpheus 1890

John Macallan Swan Orpheus 1896, Lady Lever Gallery

29/08/2018

9

Orpheus by Franz von Stuck 1891

Modern book illustration 1870 and stained glass window by Maróti

Chagall Orpheus 1913-1914Chagall Orpheus 1969

Chagall The Myth of Orpheus 1977Orpheus Red Figure Vessel, Berlin

29/08/2018

10

The Argonauts by Pietro da Cortona c. 1650

Calais and Zetesrescuing Phineus Red Figure Krater, Louvre

Tadeusz Styka Orpheus Charming the Animals 1908 Amphora with Hades, Louvre

Orpheus Eurydice and Hermes Roman copy of Greek original of c. 420 BC, Naples

Orpheus and Eurydice Roman mosaic, Lillebonne

29/08/2018

11

Apulian Red Figure volute krater by the White Sakkos painter Antikensammlung Kiel 320 BC Statue of Isis-Persephone from Heraklion Etruscan cinerary urn Statue of Proserpina

Lord Leighton The Return of Persephone 1891

Hades and CerberusLocri Pinax of Persephone and Hades enthroned terracotta 500-450 BC, Cleveland Museum

Egyptian Wall Hanging Fragment with Orpheus and Eurydice

Folio 6r of the Vatican Virgil (Vatican, BibliotecaApostolica) Orpheus in Underworld Illustration of text from the Georgics C5th AD

29/08/2018

12

Ship’s Figurehead of HMS Eurydice, end damaged on removal

Original design by J E Hellyer 1843 for HMS Eurydice Figurehead showing devil dragging her back to the Underworld

Original design by Dickerson 1822 for Ship’s Figurehead of HMS Cerberus Nicolò dell’ Abate Orpheus and Eurydice C16th

Douleur Orphée by Raoul Verlet 1890, Angoulême Musée

Annibale Carraci Orpheus and Eurydice from the ceiling of the Farnese Palace Rome

29/08/2018

13

Jacopo di Sellaio Orpheus Eurydice and Aristaeus c. 1500

Rodin Orpheus and Eurydice, Metropolitan Museum

Orpheus and Eurydice by Nathaniel Choate, Brookgreen Gardens, South Carolina Francesco Xanto Avelli Eurydice, Aristeus and Orpheus c. 1531, Urbino

Federico Cervelli Orpheus and Eurydice C17th

Cyrene and her cattle by Edward Calvert c. 1840

29/08/2018

14

Dante Gabriel Rossetti Orpheus and Eurydice

Eugene Delacroix Orpheus and Eurydice 1862

Orpheus and Eurydice Deruta 1530

Michael Martin Drolling Eurydice taken back to the Underworld 1820

Edward Poynter Orpheus and Eurydice 1862

Enrico Scuri Eurydice recedes into the Underworld C19th

29/08/2018

15

Erasmus Quellinusthe Death of Eurydice 1630

Franc Kavčič The Lament of Orpheus C19th

François Perrier Orpheus before Hades and Persephone 1645Peter Ykens and Pieter Spierinckx – Orpheus Playing the Lyre to Hades and Persephone c. 1685 Tapestry, Art Institute Chicago

Frans Francken Orpheus in the Underworld c. 1620

Lord Leighton Orpheus and Eurydice 1864

29/08/2018

16

Gaetano Gandolfi Orpheus and Eurydice C18th

Gérard de Lairesse The Descent of Orpheus into the Underworld 1662

Gustave Moreau Orpheus at the tomb of Eurydice 1891

Jacopo Vignali Orpheus and Eurydice 1625-1630 Florence

Jacquesson de la Chevreuse Orpheus in the Underworld 1863 Jan Breughel Orpheus in the Underworld 1594

29/08/2018

17

Jean Raoux Orpheus and Eurydice c. 1709, Getty Museum

Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot Orpheus Leading Eurydice From the Underworld 1861, Houston

John Roddam Spencer Stanhope Orpheus and Eurydice on the Banks of the Styx 1878

Christian Gottlieb KratzensteinOrpheus and Eurydice 1806, Carlsberg Glyptotek

Nicolas Poussin Landscape with Orpheus and Eurydice 1650-1Canova Orpheus and Eurydice 1775-6, Correr Museum Venice

29/08/2018

18

Orpheus and Eurydice C19th Unknown artist, Vienne

Michael Putz-Richard Orpheus and Eurydice 1868

Sergey Panasenko-MikhalkinOrpheus and Eurydice 1993

Rubens Orpheus and Eurydice 1636-8, Prado

Peter Vischer Orpheus and Eurydice c. 1515, Nurnberg

Joseph Paelinck Orpheus and Eurydice 1815-20

29/08/2018

19

Jean II Restout Orpheus Descending into the Underworld to ask for Eurydice 1763

Ary Scheffer Orpheus mourning the death of Eurydice c. 1814

Titian Orpheus and Eurydice c. 1508, Accademia Carrara George Frederic Watts Orpheus and Eurydice

George Frederic Watts Orpheus and Eurydice three versions from the Watts Gallery and Aberdeen Art gallery

Orpheus’s Head on Red Figure Vessel, Basel

29/08/2018

20

Maenads Killing Orpheus, Getty MusuemThe death of Orpheus c. 460 BC, Hydria Martin von Wagner Museum Würzburg

Death of Orpheus (or Pentheus) at the hands of the Maenads, Douris Red Figure vessel c. 480 BC, Kimbell Museum Fort Worth Texas

Death of Orpheus Red Figure, Louvre

Death of Orpheus, Staatliche Antikensammlungen c. 440 BC

Death of Orpheus Emile Bin 1874

29/08/2018

21

Death of Orpheus Louis Bouquet 1939

Death of Orpheus Antonio García Vega

Death of Orpheus by Dürer1494 based on lost work by Mantegna

Death of Orpheus Émile Lévy 1866

The Dead Orpheus Émile Lévy 1966

Death of Orpheus Gregorio Lazzarini c. 1710, Ca’ Rezzonico Venice

29/08/2018

22

Gustave Moreau Head of Orpheus 1865, Musée d’Orsay Paris

Death of Orpheus medal by GaleazzoMondella c. 1500-1510

Nymphs Finding the Head of Orpheus by John William Waterhouse 1900

Orpheus and the Maenads Josef Bergler after 1800

Orpheus’s Head Floating in the Water by Odilon Redon 1881, Kröller-Müller Museum

Orpheus’s Head by OdilonRedon c. 1903-1910, Cleveland Art Museum

29/08/2018

23

The Death of Orpheus by Michele Tripisciano 1898, Tripisciano Museum

Orpheus Dismembered by Malcolm Lidbury 2016

River Hebros

Mount Pangaion from Philippi

Sidney Hall Urania’s Mirror: Lacerta, Cygnus, Lyra, Vulpecula and Anser 1825