The Euridice convex mirror that combines various colors of golden, transparent Venetian glass rods with various sizes of crystal cabochons giving it a layered, shimmering look. The frame is surrounded by crystal spheres.
The Euridice convex mirror is around 7.25 inches in diameter and is going to be placed in one of my showrooms.
Jewelry for walls!
Eurydice was the wife of Orpheus, who loved her dearly; on their wedding day, he played joyful songs as his bride danced through the meadow. One day, Aristaeus( a minor god of rustic pursuits like bee keeping) saw and pursued Eurydice, who stepped on a snake, was bitten, and died instantly. Distraught, Orpheus played and sang so mournfully that all the nymphs and deities wept and told him to travel to the Underworld to retrieve her, which he gladly did. After his music softened the hearts of Hades and Persephone, his singing so sweet that even the Erinyes( the three goddesses of retribution and vengeance) wept, he was allowed to take her back to the world of the living. In another version, Orpheus played his lyre to put Cerberus( the multi-headed hound of hell!), the guardian of Hades, to sleep, after which Eurydice was allowed to return with Orpheus to the world of the living. Either way, the condition was attached that he must walk in front of her and not look back until both had reached the upper world. Soon he began to doubt that she was there, suspecting that Hades had deceived him. Just as he reached the portals of Hades, and daylight, he turned around to gaze on her face, and because Eurydice had not yet crossed the threshold, she vanished back into the Underworld. When Orpheus later was killed by the Maenads( drunk, hallucinating crazy-ass followers of Dionysysus) at the orders of Dionysus, his soul ended up in the Underworld where he was reunited with Eurydice.
Orpheus Leading Euridice out of the Underworld, by Emile Neide, 1842
The Marriage of Euridice and Orpheus by A.M. Roucoule, 1877
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