Orpheus Playing to Pluto and Persephone in the Underworld

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Brueghel Jan the Elder - Orpheus Playing to Pluto and Persephone in the Underworld
Number:075182
Title:Orpheus Playing to Pluto and Persephone in the Underworld
Artist: Brueghel, Jan, the Elder (1568-1625)
Museum: Galleria Colonna, Rome
Method: Oil on canvas
Created: ca 1594
School: Flanders
Category: Mythology, Allegory and Literature
Trend in art: Early Netherlandish Art
Keywords: Music, Musician, Roman mythology, Ovid, Metamorphoses, Ancient Rome, Ancient Greek, Lyre, Harp, Harpist, Lyra, Roman goddess, Greek Goddess, Roman literature, Orpheus, Musical instruments, Musical instrument, Pluto, Proserpina, Proserpine, Persephone, God of the underworld