Originally posted on The Genealogy of Style:
Orpheus and Eurydice, Auguste Rodin, modeled probably before 1887, carved 1893   This mythological subject was very popular in Auguste Rodin‘s times. The sculptor, inspired by the opera Orfeo ed Euridice from Christoph Willibald Gluck from 1762 that was performed in Paris by the end of the 19th…