Auguste Rodin,Orpheus and Eurydice,marble
The mythical poet Orpheus braved the underworld to rescue his dead wife Eurydice.The gods allowed her ghost to follow him and regain life provided that Orpheus did not look at her until both have reached the sunlit earth.Rodin depicts Eurydice's spirit floating in the underworld 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 will glimpse her,and Eurydice will vanish.
Auguste Rodin,Orpheus and Eurydice,marble
The mythical poet Orpheus braved the underworld to rescue his dead wife Eurydice.The gods allowed her ghost to follow him and regain life provided that Orpheus did not look at her until both have reached the sunlit earth.Rodin depicts Eurydice's spirit floating in the underworld 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 will glimpse her,and Eurydice will vanish.