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The Concerto of Orpheus in the Underworld for Pluto and Proserpina
Narcissus at the source
Portrait of Onofrio Panvinio
San Maurelio and San Paolo with cardinal Bartolomeo roverella
View on Piazza Navona
Portrait of a gentleman

The Concerto of Orpheus in the Underworld for Pluto and Proserpina

Jan Brueghel il Vecchio

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Colonna Gallery

Colonna Gallery

Via della Pilotta, 17, Rome

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Jan Brueghel the Elder belongs to a veritable dynasty of Antwerp painters, started by his father Pieter Bruegel the Elder, continued with him and his brother Pieter Brueghel the Younger. The subject represented is taken from the myth of Orpheus, singer and musician, son of Apollo, who according to legend had the gift of enchanting every creature thanks to the sound of his lyre. He had descended into the Underworld to move the deities of the Underworld with his concert and restore his dead beloved, Eurydice, to life. From a stylistic point of view, Jan takes up the infernal scenarios and the extravagant creatures that made Hieronymus Bosch and his own father Pieter famous. From the latter, he took up above all the theme of the personifications of the Seven Deadly Sins. The painting entered the Colonna collection in the eighteenth century following an exchange with Cardinal Alessandro Albani of a “Statue of Jupiter”, coming from the gardens of Palazzo Colonna.
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Title: The Concerto of Orpheus in the Underworld for Pluto and Proserpina

Author: Jan Brueghel il Vecchio

Date: 1594 ca.

Technique: Oil on copper

Displayed in: Colonna Gallery

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