Eurydice is swept back to the underworld by Mercury as Orpheus looks on. Michel-Martin Drölling (c. 1820) oil on canvas, Musée national Magnin, Dijon 1938 F 303.
Eurydice slips back into the underworld after Orpheus looks back. Christian Gottlieb Kratzenstein-Stub (1806) oil on canvas. Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek.
The Parcae (Greek Moirai) wind the thread of fate. Oil on canvas by Alfred Agache, Palais Beaux-Arts Lille P 1639.
Philomela and Procne present Tereus with the head of his son, Itys. Prado Museum (Museo Nacional Del Prado) P001660.
Jupiter in the form of a bull swims across the ocean while Europa holds on by one horn. Isabella Stewart Gardener Museum, Boston, P26e1. CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
The sketch illustrates a celebrated passage from Virgil's Aeneid describing how Neptune calmed the winds to save Aeneas from shipwreck. Neptune, his arm raised, commands the winds to desist. Jupiter stands in front of the portico of a circular temple. In 1764–66 Tiepolo decorated a room in the Palacio Real, Madrid, with an apotheosis of Aeneas; the sketch may be related to this project. (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
