Picture No | 10082208 |
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Description | Orpheus and Bacchantes |
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After the death of Eurydice, he goes off women, and they off him : when he meets a group of Maenads celebrating Dionysos, they tear him to pieces like wild animals
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Source | engraving by Michel Saulte in Renouard's translation of Ovid's Metamorphoses, circa 1610, page 303 |
Credit | Mary Evans Picture Library |
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