Paintings and Poems - Orpheus and Eurydice

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Frederic Leighton and his contemporaries often drew inspiration for paintings from poetry and stories of classic antiquity, the Medieval or Renaissance Europe. Poets of the Victorian age were often inspired by these paintings to write new poems. Explore the connection between the two art forms in these short clips connecting a painting from our collections with a poem.

2. Orpheus and Eurydice by Frederic Leighton (1864) with a poem by Robert Browning called Eurydice to Orpheus (1864) performed by Dominic Palmer-Brown