![]() ![]() was, 27 centuries later, still intriguing audiences and inspiring artists, novelists, poets, and composers. A Greek myth that was the subject of poems in the seventh century B.C. I also could have seen paintings based on the Orpheus narrative by Giovanni da San Giovanni, Odilon Redon, and George Frederic Watts at Harvard University’s Fogg Art Museum in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and by Eugène Delacroix, and probably other artists, at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. During the same weekend, Jean Cocteau’s film Orphée, on which the Glass opera was based, could be seen in Boston, as could Black Orpheus, the Brazilian film based on the same Greek myth. ![]() Murphy) CONTENTS editor’s note and guide to usage alphabetical list of entries general reading list encyclopedia entries a–ZZ z page vii xi xiii 1 - 957 notes on contributors 969 index of ancient mythological and historical personages, places, and concepts 975 index of judeo-christian personages, places, and concepts 989 index of references to the bible and other sacred books 1001 index of other cultures, religions, and mythologies 1007 index of artists and works of art 1011 index of authors, literary texts, composers, filmmakers, and folktales 1051 index of other names and terms 1065 EDITOR’S NOTE AND GUIDE TO USAGE S everal years ago, in the span of one weekend, I saw performances of two operas based on the Orpheus story: Claudio Monteverdi’s La favola d’Orfeo and Philip Glass’s Orphee. ![]() Jerome in His Study, circa 1524–1530, oil on wood panel, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University, Fogg Art Museum (Courtesy of the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University Art Museums, Gift of Howland Warren, Dr. First published in the USA and UK 1998 Typeset by Proof Positive/Farrowlyne Associates, Inc., Evanston, Illinois Printed by Publishers’ Graphics LLC, Carol Stream, Illinois Cover illustration: Joos van Cleve, St. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data is available. For information write to: FITZROY DEARBORN PUBLISHERS 70 East Walton Street Chicago, Illinois 60611 USA or 11 Rathbone Place London w1p 1de England All Rights Reserved ISBN 1-57958-009-2 Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data is available. LONDON Copyright © 1998 by FITZROY DEARBORN PUBLISHERS All rights reserved including the right of reproduction in whole or in part in any form.Roberts FITZROY DEARBORN PUBLISHERS CHICAGO ENCYCLOPEDIA of Comparative Iconography ENCYCLOPEDIA of Comparative Iconography T H E M E S D E P I C T E D I N W O R K S O F A RT VO L U M E 1& 2 A–Z Editor Helene E. ![]()
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