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Apulian Red Figure bell krater, detail: Orpheus.
Pronomos Painter.
Taranto, Via C. Battisti, 29/5/1951
First quarter of the 4th c. BCE
Taranto, Museo Nazionale Archeologico, inv. 52407
on display at the Museo Archeologico Provinciale Sigismondo Castromediano, Lecce, for the exhibit "La Musica nella Japigia di Aristosseno" (23 April - 23 July 2009)
Boguslavsky's Cigarettes "Mythological Gods & Goddesses" (series of 25 issued in 1924)
#23 Orpheus ~ Greek God of Music
The Orpheus Fountain in front of the Cranbrook Art Museum in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. It's named for the Greek myth of Orpheus.
The statues were originally sculpted for the Concert Hall in Stockholm, Sweden, The central statue of Orpheus was omitted from this installation because Cranbrook's founder, George Booth, didn't want it to dominate the other statues. (More details. here.)
Landscape with Orpheus; Unknown maker, Flemish, 16th century; 16th century, about 1570; Oil on panel; Unframed: 35.6 x 45.7 cm (14 x 18 in.), Framed: 56.5 x 66.7 x 5.7 cm (22 1/4 x 26 1/4 x 2 1/4 in.); 71.PB.64
The future is called "perhaps", which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the only important thing is not to allow that to scare you.
This statue, dedicated to Francis Scott Key, was originally placed in the center of the entrance road to Fort McHenry. It was moved to this grassy area in 1962.
Just as he reached the portals of Hades and daylight, he turned around to gaze on her face, and because Eurydice had not yet crossed the threshold, she vanished back into the Underworld.
Hötorget, Stockholm, Sweden
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Another couple of late blooming indian pipe. They're so alluring that I have to shoot them. Luckily when I'm on my own, I can please myself. OM 90mm at f4 or so.
"Sometimes you have to loose yourself to find yourself all over again.
Then winning is never too big,
Losing never too small,
And life seems to fit like a glove."
-Henry M. Diaz
Bonus: Running To Stand Still
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A slowly changing light on the trees and the house. The installation is inspired by Orpheus and Eurydice, a tragic love story from Greek mythology. When Eurydice died from a snakebite, Orpheus descended into the underworld of Hades, to recover his lost wife.
It is one of the temporary light installations during the event "Lights in Alingsås 2024" – the theme of the year is "The Magical World of Mythology".
Alingsås Municipality organises the event Lights in Alingsås every autumn. Since 2000 the municipality has worked with the PLDA (Professional Lighting Designers´ Association). Every year in september/october leading international lighting designers come to Alingsås to hold a week´s workshop with participants from all over the world. Together they light a number of buildings and locations around the town centre. Around 70,000 people come every year to see the designs during the month-long event.
Work shop head for this installation: Valerie Insardi, based in Denver, USA.
www.lightsinalingsas.se/en (website in English and Swedish)
"Myths Every Child Should Know"edited by Hamilton Wright Mabie and illustrated and decorated by Mary Hamilton Frye. Copyright 1905 and 1914 by Doubleday, Page and Company. Printed by Garden City Publishing Co., Inc.