Description :

Reference number: 78J / D305

Origin: Flanders-Brussels

Period: 17th century

Provenance: Private Collection

Composition: Wool and silk

Dimesions: 3.40 L x 2.80 H

Emperor Neron in front of the statue of Orphé.

(Lucius Domitius Claudius Nero)

Birth on December 15 in Antium (Bay of Naples) of the child that will be known as Nero. He is the son of Gnæus Domitius Ahenobarbus and Agrippina the Younger, the nephew of Emperor Caligula. This little Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus is also, by his mother, a direct descendant of Auguste and Antoine.

Orpheus

In ancient Greek Ὀρφεύς is a hero of Greek mythology, son of the king of Thrace Ogre and the Muse Calliope. Poet and musician, he was sometimes considered a prophet and inspired a religious movement called "Orphism", which was related to Pythagoreans and Dionysian mysteries. Orpheus was part of the Argonauts; his descent into the Underworld and his failure to bring his wife Eurydice back to the world of the living are her myth.

If most ancient writers agree on the historical existence of Orpheus, for Aristotle, Orpheus was never a poet. According to him, the author of Orphic hymns is called Cercops. Orpheus is mentioned in a poem by Ibycos, in the seventh century. The legend of Orpheus is linked to the religion of mysteries as well as sacred literature; he taught the initiations, and to abstain from the murders by the establishment of the expiations, the goal of expiations.

Orpheus charming wild beasts with his lyre, sarcophagus of the third century BC. BC, archaeological museum of

Thessaloniki.

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