stefan arteni

orpheus,
wandering singer
and
good shepherd

a visual essay

solinvictus press 2010

Orphic prayer sheet from Thessaly, Greece,
The Getty museum, U.S.A., 350-300 BC
the thracian wandering singer
Hermes making the lyre, bronze relief,
British museum, London, England,
4th century BC
Funerary stela of Valpalmas, Tiña del Royo, Luna, Zaragoza,
Spain, 1250 to 750 BC
Blind (?) wandering lyre player and his companion, bronze,
Greece, 690 BC, Getty Villa, U.S.A.
Lyre player, Greece, 6th century BC,
Louvre museum, Paris, France
 Ulysses and the sirens, attributed to Python,
red figure krater, Antikensammlung, Berlin, Germany,
4th century BC
 Siren with lyre,
Graeco-Roman Museum, Alexandria, Egypt
Ulysses and the sirens (the two sirens on the left play the lyre and
the pan flute), British museum, London, England
Roman silver figure, Orpheus, 3rd-5th centuries AD
 A few ancient Greek musical instruments,
www.lyravlos.gr/ancient-greek-instruments-en.asp

Greek lyre restored from remains found in Athens,

5th-4th centuries BC, British museum, London, England,
photo Barbara McManus
www.mlahanas.de/Greeks/Music2.htm
The Greek pandoura
(Roman pandura)

Pandoura (?) player,

Tanagra figurine
 Orpheus among the Thracians,
Attic red-figure bell-krater, ca. 440 BC,
attributed to the painter of London
 Orpheus among Thracian warriors,
Attic red-figure column krater attributed to the Naples painter,
www.royalathena.com/PAGES/GreekCatalog/Vases/AtticRF/BB0
901.html
Orpheus and Eurydice, Roman mosaic, Musée des Antiquités,
Rouen, France
Hermes, Orpheus and Eurydice,
Roman copy of a Greek relief,
Museo archeologico, Napoli, Italy
Death of Orpheus, red-figure Athenian amphora, 5th century BC
Death of Orpheus, Attic amphora, 470 BC.
Death of Orpheus, Attic red-figure stamnos, 470 BC
 Bronze hydria, Orpheus playing the lyre for a satyr,
Greece, 370-360 BC,
mcclungmuseum.utk.edu/archives/vessels/index.shtml
 Orpheus, Roman fresco and details,
House of Orpheus or the House of Vesonius Primus,
Pompeii, Italy
Orpheus, details of the Roman fresco above, House of Orpheus
or the House of Vesonius Primus,
Pompeii, Italy
Orpheus, Roman mosaic, Antakya, Turkey,
photo Dick Osseman
Orpheus, detail of the Roman mosaic above, Antakya, Turkey,
photo Dick Osseman
Roman mosaic and detail, house of Orpheus, Volubilis, Morocco
Detail of the Roman mosaic above, house of Orpheus,
Volubilis, Morocco
 Orpheus, Roman mosaic, Dominicans Museum, Rottweil,
Germany, end of 2nd century AD, found at villa D near Rottweil
Roman mosaic of Orpheus with the Lyre (found in the bathouse of
a house in Vienne in 1859), St-Romain-en-Gal, Provence, France
 Orpheus, Roman mosaic,
Museo archeologico regionale, Palermo, Italy
Orpheus, Roman mosaic and detail, El Djem museum, Tunisia,
2nd century AD
Orpheus, Roman mosaic
from Miletus and detail,
Pergamon museum,
Berlin, Germany,
2nd century AD
Orpheus, details of the Roman mosaic from Miletus,
Pergamon museum, Berlin, Germany, 2nd century AD
Orpheus, Roman mosaic, Sant’Anselmo all'Aventino church,
Rome, Italy, 2nd-3rd centuries AD
Orpheus, details of the Roman mosaic above,
Sant’Anselmo all'Aventino church, Rome, Italy,
2nd-3rd centuries AD
Orpheus, Roman mosaic, Dallas Museum of Art,
Dallas, Texas, U.S.A., 204 AD
Orpheus, Roman mosaic, El Djem museum, Tunisia,
3rd century AD
Orpheus,
Roman mosaic
from
Caesaraugusta,
2nd to 3rd
centuries AD,
Museo
de Zaragoza,
Spain
 Orpheus, Roman mosaic and detail,
Brading Roman Villa, Brading Village, Isle of Wight , England
Orpheus, Roman mosaic, Littlecote villa, England
 Orpheus, Roman mosaic, Ptolemais museum, Libya,

Detail, Orpheus, Roman mosaic, Ptolemais museum, Libya,

photo Frederic Negroni
 Orpheus, Roman mosaic from Tunisia, 200-250 AD,
Szépmüvészeti Múzeum (Museum of Fine Arts), Budapest,
Hungary
 Orpheus, details of the Roman mosaic from Tunisia above,
200-250 AD, Szépmüvészeti Múzeum (Museum of Fine Arts),
Budapest, Hungary
 Orpheus, details of the Roman mosaic from Tunisia above,
200-250 AD, Szépmüvészeti Múzeum (Museum of Fine Arts),
Budapest, Hungary
 Orpheus, details of the Roman mosaic from Tunisia above,
200-250 AD, Szépmüvészeti Múzeum (Museum of Fine Arts),
Budapest, Hungary
Orpheus, Roman mosaic, Arles, France
Orpheus, Roman mosaic, Bardo museum, Tunis, Tunisia
Orpheus, Roman mosaic, Zippori, Israel,
3rd-4th centuries AD
 Neoattic sarcophagus,
Thessaloniki Archaeological Museum, Greece, 3rd century AD
Orpheus, Bobbio ivory pyxis
Orpheus, Roman sarcophagus fragment, 4th century AD,
Castello sforzesco, Milano, Italy,
Photo Giovanni Dall’Orto
Musician (Orpheus?), Gaser basilica, Libya, 539-540 AD
Luca della Robbia, Lute player as Orpheus or The Art of Music,
1437-1439
Thracian Lyre
(cobza;
slavic: kobza)
 Oscar Obedeanu (1868–1915),
A wandering Romanian
cobza player

Ştefan Luchian (1868-1916),

A wandering Romanian
cobza player
the good shepherd
 Ancient syrinx (pan flute), Graeco-Roman Museum,
Alexandria, Egypt
.
Roman mosaic showing a pan flute
Satyr (Pan?) relief,
Roman monument
of Poblicius,
Roman-German
Museum, Cologne,
Germany
Orphic and Dyonisiac mysteries, Roman sarcophagus,
Badia Vecchia, Taormina, Italy, 2nd century AD,
photos Giovanni Dall’Orto
Dionysiac scenes, Roman mosaic, Ismailia museum, Egypt
Dionysos mosaic, fragment, Roman-German museum,
Cologne, Germany, 3rd century AD
Roman relief with pan flute, Monte di Pietà, Brescia, Italy,
photo Stefano Bolognini
Roman relief with pan flute and shepherd’s staff, Duomo Vecchio,
Brescia, Italy,
photo Stefano Bolognini
 Dance of the genii of the seasons,
Domus dei Tappeti di Pietra, Ravenna, Italy
Orpheus mosaic from Jerusalem, 5th-6th centuries AD,
Archaeology museum, Istanbul, Turkey
Roman sarcophagus, Museo archeologico, Ostia, Italy,
3rd-4th centuries AD,
Orpheus-Christ shown with a sheep and a dove
Orpheus as good shepherd shown with a sheep and a dove,
Porto Torres, Sardinia, Italy
Roman fresco of Orpheus as the Good Shepherd,
catacomb of Domitilla, Rome, Italy
Cubiculum of Orpheus as Good Shepherd, catacomb of Domitilla,
Rome, Italy

Roman fresco of Orpheus as the Good Shepherd,

catacomb of Domitilla, Rome, Italy
Roman fresco of Orpheus as the Good Shepherd,
Via Latina catacomb, Rome, Italy
Roman fresco of Orpheus as the Good Shepherd and detail,
Via Latina catacomb, Rome, Italy
Roman mosaic of Orpheus as the Good Shepherd,
5th -6th centuries AD (?),
Domus dei Tappeti di Pietra, Ravenna, Italy
Detail of the Roman mosaic above of Orpheus as the Good
Shepherd, 5th -6th centuries AD (?),
Domus dei Tappeti di Pietra, Ravenna, Italy
Orpheus as the Good Shepherd, Roman mosaic,
Aquileia, Italy
Roman fresco of Orpheus as the Good Shepherd, the catacomb
of Saints Marcellinus and Peter, Rome, Italy
The Good Shepherd, the catacomb of Saints Marcellinus and
Peter, Rome, Italy
 Good Shepherd from Corinth,
Byzantine and Christian museum, Athens, Greece, 4th century AD
 The Good Shepherd,
Lateran museum, Rome, Italy, 4th century AD
The Good Shepherd, Graeco-Roman Museum,
Alexandria, Egypt
the twentieth century
Jean Cocteau, Orphée à la lyre
Mario Sironi, Orpheus and Eurydice
Arturo Martini, Orpheus
 Giorgio de Chirico, Orfeo

Giorgio de Chirico, Orfeo trovatore stanco

Georges Rouault,
Orpheus
Georges Rouault, Orpheus
Ossip Zadkine, Orpheus, Apeldoorn, the Netherlands
Marc Chagall, Orpheus
André Masson, Orpheus; L'Amour dans les ruines
Jacques Villon, Orpheus
Stefan Arteni, Orpheus
Stefan Arteni, Orpheus
Stefan Arteni, Orpheus mural project
Stefan Arteni, Mioriţa