Giftware & Lifestyle - Orpheus and Eurydice Fleeing the Underworld
| Article number: | WU78263A4 |
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Giftware & Lifestyle
Orpheus and Eurydice Fleeing the Underworld statue
- Beautifully crafted, bronzed figurine
- Cast in the finest resin
- Painstakingly hand-painted
- Bronzed finish
- Dimensions: (wxhxd) approx. 23.5cm x 18.5cm x 11cm
- Veronese Design
Throughout the country, the fantastic singer Orpheus was praised. All nature's animals, trees and even stones stirred the singer. He couldn't believe his luck when he married the nymph Eurydice. The happiness was short-lived. When the nymph was chased by Aristaios, who wanted to assault her, she was bitten by a viper. It was a minor wound, but she eventually died of it. Orpheus devised an unprecedented plan. He would descend into the underworld and beg the ruler of the phantoms to return his wife to him. Once at the throne, on which Hades sat with his wife Persephone as ruler of the dead, he took his lyre and began to sing. The royal couple were deeply moved and decided to reunite Eurydice with him, on one condition: Orpheus had to walk in front of his beloved and was not allowed to look back at her until they had reached the sunlight......
