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Title
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La sierpe mudada en piedra
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Description
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This engraving illustrates the moments that followed the death of Orpheus. The Maenads, who brutally murdered him, are illustrated throwing the head of Orpheus and his lyre into the river Hebrus. His body parts are depicted scattered across the ground near the Maenads, as they had killed him by tearing him to pieces. Orpheus’ lyre continued playing down the river, and his lifeless tongue continued singing. When his head and lyre appeared on the shores of Lesbos, a snake was nearby and tried to attack the severed head. Before the snake could attack, Phoebus appeared and turned the snake to stone. This is illustrated in the background of the engraving.
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Image Creator
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Virgil Solis (Engraver)
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Identifier
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mta:11537
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Source Name
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Las Transformaciones de Ovidio en lengua Española, repartidas en quinze libros, con las Allegorias al fin dellos, y sus figuras, para prouecho de los Artifices [The Transformations of Ovid in the Spanish language, distributed in fifteen books, with the allegories at the end of them and their figures, for the benefit of the creators]
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Image
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Subject
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Roman Mythology
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Greek Mythology
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Maenads
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Orpheus
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Transformation
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