# Orpheus and Eurydice

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## Artwork

- Artist: [RODIN, Auguste](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/rodin-auguste-r3d20d909489aff>)
- Date: 1851-1900
- Technique: Marble, 124 x 79 x 65 cm

## Commentary

This marble sculpture has an erotically charged subject. The smooth naked bodies of a man and woman emerge from a cleft in rough rock. Orpheus&#39;s story, taken from Ovid&#39;s Metamorphoses, enjoyed renewed popularity at the end of the nineteenth century. &lt;p&gt; &lt;table align=left cellpadding=5 border=1 width=320 bgcolor=&#34;\#99cccc&#34;&gt; &lt;tr valign=middle&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;img src=&#34;/support/gif/listen.gif&#34; border=0 valign=middle&gt; Suggested listening \(streaming mp3, 7 minutes\):&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;\#&#34; onClick=&#34;w=window.open \(&#39;/music1/18\_cent/gluck\_orfeo.html&#39;, &#39;newWin&#39;, &#39;scrollbars=yes,status=no,dependent=yes,screenX=0,screenY=0,width=350,height=350&#39;\);w.opener=this;w.focus\(\);return true&#34;&gt;&lt;b&gt;Cristoph Willibald Gluck: Orfeo, Act I, Orpheus&#39; aria in G Major&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;

## Related artworks

- [Adam \(detail\)](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/rodin-auguste-r3d20d909489aff/adam-detail-r99a2abd6c6a071>)
- [Adam](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/rodin-auguste-r3d20d909489aff/adam-r7d643ad8531508>)
- [Adam](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/rodin-auguste-r3d20d909489aff/adam-rb152717c1f47f8>)
- [Adam](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/rodin-auguste-r3d20d909489aff/adam-rd0737a78f26aca>)
- [Balzac \(detail\)](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/rodin-auguste-r3d20d909489aff/balzac-detail-r8099b93f0d0220>)
- [Balzac](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/rodin-auguste-r3d20d909489aff/balzac-r57709778c44f74>)
- [Balzac](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/rodin-auguste-r3d20d909489aff/balzac-rbbd14055b4a6a4>)
- [Bellona](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/rodin-auguste-r3d20d909489aff/bellona-rf253fa0878f9c6>)
- [Bust of Étienne Clémentel](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/rodin-auguste-r3d20d909489aff/bust-of-tienne-clmentel-re042cb8264c59e>)
- [Bust of Victor Hugo with Modeled Base](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/rodin-auguste-r3d20d909489aff/bust-of-victor-hugo-with-modeled-base-ra46d3460d31f54>)
- [Cathedral](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/rodin-auguste-r3d20d909489aff/cathedral-r22f7ad36cb0ac6>)
- [Danaid \(The Source\)](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/rodin-auguste-r3d20d909489aff/danaid-the-source-r6cd434fb357be7>)

## Attribution

[Web Gallery of Art](<https://beta.wga.hu/pages/about>)