Orpheus and Cerberus

By playing the violin, Orpheus hoped to persuade the three-headed dog Cerberus to allow him to enter the underworld, to find and bring back his wife Eurydice.This bronze is known to have belonged to a Delft silversmith, Thomas Cruse. It was inspired by a marble statue made in 1598 by Pietro Francavilla, one of Giambologna’s main assistants.

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Imens i livet hos Hendrick de Keyser

I samme sal · Medieval & Renaissance, Room 62, The Foyle Foundation Gallery, Victoria and Albert Museum

Om samme emne · Violin

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Kilder

Buste af grædende barn

Borstbeeld van een man

Borstbeeld van een man, vermoedelijk Vincent Coster

Mercurius

Bust of Vincent Coster (1553-1608/10), Fragment

Willem I, prins van Oranje, op zijn praalbed

Schreeuwend kind, gestoken door een bij

Prins Willem van Oranje

The Emperor Rudolph II, 1609

A Pacing Horse, ca. 1600

Self-portrait, Alessandro Vittoria, ca. 1600

A Pacing horse, ca. 1595-1600

Seated boy playing the bagpipes, 1590-1610

Bust of a member of the Navagero family, ca. 1590-1600

A Lady aged 29 in 1582, 1582

Kneeling angel, ca. 1581 - ca. 1584

Saint Cecilia, c. 1515/1516

Acrobat with a Violin, 1924

Greeting Card for 1972, 1971

Man with a Sack, 1922/1923 (printed 1950)

Goat with a Violin, 1922/1923 (printed 1950)

Bearded Man Seated with a Violin under His Arm, 1922/1923

A Pastoral Landscape with Shepherds Playing a Viola and Panpipes, 1496/1497

Woman Playing a Violin