Classical Mythology

Hades, Orpheus, & other Infernal Visitors

Thursday, February 28, 2013

Hades

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Roman Sculpture of Hades & Cerberus

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Caravaggio Jupiter, Neptune & Pluto

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Carracci, Pluto & Cerberus (1592)

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Infernal Sufferers

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Sisyphus
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Titian Punishment of Tityus (1548-49)

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Titian Sisyphus (1549)

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Ixion

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Rubens, Ixion with Nephele (1615)

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Ribera Ixion (1632)

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Danads

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Bissen Danad

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John Waterhouse (1849-1917) The Danads

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John Singer Sargent (1856-1925), Danads

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Charon

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Charon
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Crespi, Aeneas with the Sybil & Charon (1700-05)

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Charon

Michelangelos Last judgement Sistine Chapel

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Patinir (c. 1480-1524) Charon crossing the Styx

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Cerberus

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Heracles and Cerberus

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Heracles and Cerberus (2-headed)

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Sebald Beham, Hercules capturing Cerberus (1540)

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Gustave Dor, Cerberus (19th century)

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William Blake, Cerberus (1824-7)

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Cerberus, Roman Mosaic

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Orpheus

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Sellaio Orpheus en Eurydice (c. 1480)

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Poussin, Landscape with Orpheus and Eurydice (1650/1)

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Perrier, Orpheus before Pluto (1635)

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Machard, Orpheus (1865)

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Bergamo Orpheus & Eurydice

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Rodin Orpheus & Eurydice

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Corot, Orpheus Leading Eurydice (1861)

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Bruegel the Elder Orpheus Playing to the Animals (1605)

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Savery, Orpheus Playing to the Animals

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Riviere, Orpheus Playing to the Animals (1874)

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Maenads attacking Orpheus (5th century bce)

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Drer, Maenads attacking Orpheus

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Levy, Maenads attacking Orpheus (1860s)

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Waterhouse Nymphs finding Orpheus Head (1905)

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Gustave Moreau Orpheus (1865)

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Carracci Orpheus & Eurydice (c. 159095)

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