Orpheus and Cerberus
With his music Orpheus charms Cerberus, the guardian of the underworld, to let him enter and rescue his wife Eurydice, whom he almost succeeds in bringing back to life
Picture No
14088323
Media ID
45949106
Size
3151px x 3324px
(2.2MB)
Credit
Mary Evans Picture Library
Source
ancient carving, reproduced in Bernard de Montfaucon, L'antiquite explique et repre- sente en figures (1719-1724)
