Source: Orpheus Leading Eurydice from the Underworld by Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot/Wikimedia Commons You know the song—it’s not Greek Mythology’s most popular track, but it’s definitely ...

His character is immensely old. Though he emerges by name in the 6 th century B.C., I have seen an Orpheus figure on a vase seven centuries earlier, in the museum at Heraklion in Crete: a man with ...

Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot painted thousands of landscapes. But in the last two decades of his life, he turned his attention to painting women — often dressed in elaborate costumes.

Corot’s “The Repose” was painted in 1860 and reworked later in the decade. The nude model looks out at the viewer with a composed and level gaze, but it’s not a gaze that’s easy to ...