# Orpheus [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [CANOVA, Antonio]() - Date: 1751-1800 - Technique: Marble, height 203 cm ## Commentary Originally intended to adorn a garden \(in 1777 it was placed in the garden of Villa Falier at Asolo\), Orpheus and Eurydice are Canova's first monumental statues. Here the sculptor was still working in the late Rococo style, as can be seen in the contrasting movements, the way the surfaces are finished to imitate varied materials, and the virtuosity of the details, such as the hand that emerges from the flames to seize Eurydice and drag her back to the Underworld. <p> <table align=left cellpadding=5 border=1 width=320 bgcolor="\#99cccc"> <tr valign=middle><td><img src="/support/gif/listen.gif" border=0 valign=middle> Suggested listening \(streaming mp3, 4 minutes\):<br><a href="\#" onClick="w=window.open \('/music1/19\_cent/offenbach\_orpheus.html', 'newWin', 'scrollbars=yes,status=no,dependent=yes,screenX=0,screenY=0,width=350,height=350'\);w.opener=this;w.focus\(\);return true"><b>Jacques Offenbach: Orpheus in the Underworld, overture</b></a> </td></tr></table> ## Related artworks - [Bust of Napoleon Bonaparte]() - [Cupid and Psyche \(detail\)]() - [Cupid and Psyche \(detail\)]() - [Cupid and Psyche]() - [Cupid and Psyche]() - [Cupid and Psyche]() - [Cupid and Psyche]() - [Daedalus and Icarus]() - [Daedalus and Icarus]() - [Eurydice]() - [Feed the Hungry]() - [Funerary Monument of Francesco Pesaro \(model\)]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()