Rodin depicts Eurydice’s spirit floating in the underworld’s dark entrance while Orpheus hesitates at the threshold. Because he cannot feel her phantom embrace, or hear her spectral voice, Orpheus turns to see if his beloved has come. An instant later he …

Is it defeat, desire, or exultation that produces Orpheus’s upstretched torso and expression? Some of the ambiguity can be explained by the fact that, in its original form, the sculpture included the figure of Eurydice hovering over Orpheus’s shoulder; one …

Orpheus and Cerberus became part of the Museum's collection in 1975, as the gift, fittingly, of Cornelius and Emily Vermeule, scholars of classical art who recognized the work's seminal importance in the history of nineteenth-century American sculpture.

Orpheus with the Awkward Foot (also simply known as Orpheus or the Francis Scott Key Monument) is a monumental statue located at Fort McHenry in Baltimore, Maryland, United States.

The sculpture is carved in a block of sandstone. The torso of Eurydice rises from the rock, her head is thrown back and her eyes are closed as she listens to the music. Her long hair hangs down the side and part of her robe hangs over her left arm. She leans against Orpheus whose body emerges from the rock base. He holds a lyre in his left 1938

What it depicts: In this sculpture, we see Orpheus and Eurydice in the moments before Orpheus's fateful backwards glance. The figures' smooth skin contrasts with the coarse texture of the rocks behind them, which perfectly evoke the rough cave and …

Orpheus, with his lyre, looks back at Eurydice, losing her forever as she is accompanied back to Hades by Hermes. The three figures are set in a spreading palm frond rising out of a fountain basin.

The cast is of a three-figured relief that shows Hermes, Eurydice, and Orpheus. It was taken from a panel which is now in the Museo Nazionale in Naples but it shows a different head of Orpheus than that panel now does.

This sculpture shows Orpheus, his arms raised in grief, with the winged horse Pegasus.

He carved stone sculpture, and also produced designs for silver and furniture, as well as executing small-scale reliefs in wood, based on engraved sources. The subject is taken from Ovid's Metamorphoses. Orpheus's wife Eurydice, bitten by a …