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Classical Mythology, 7th Edition - obinfonet: dia logou

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ORPHEUS AND ORPHISM: MYSTERY RELIGIONS IN ROMAN TIMES 355<br />

Spring: Orpheus and Eurydice. By Eugène Delacroix (1798-1863); oil on canvas, 1836, 78 X 65V4<br />

in. Eurydice falls as a companion holds her and looks in horror at the snake gliding into the<br />

undergrowth at the bottom right corner. Orpheus with his lyre approaches from the left, and<br />

another nymph looks on in fear on the right, kneeling like the figure of Eurydice in Poussin's<br />

painting of the same subject. This painting, left unfinished at the artist's death, is one of a series<br />

of the Four Seasons with mythological subjects (Summer: Diana and Actaeon; Autumn: Bacchus<br />

and Ariadne; Winter: Juno and Aeolus). (Sào Paulo, Museu de Arte de Sâo Paulo.)

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