Orpheus in the underworld: the Element Vuur, Abraham van den Hecken, c. 1620 - 1655 print Orpheus with his winch for Pluto and his wife Prosperina in the Hades, with the Tartarus in the background with Sisyphus with a rock and Ixion on a burning wheel, as an allegory on the element of fire. On the right watering with burning torches. Print from a series of four. Low Countries paper etching / engraving fire (one of the four elements). Hades, the Underworld. Tartarus (and the condemned assigned there). Sisyphus pushing his boulder uphill or carrying it on his shoulders. Ixion on a burning wheel.
Orpheus in the underworld: the Element Vuur, Abraham van den Hecken, c. 1620 - 1655 print Orpheus with his winch for Pluto and his wife Prosperina in the Hades, with the Tartarus in the background with Sisyphus with a rock and Ixion on a burning wheel, as an allegory on the element of fire. On the right watering with burning torches. Print from a series of four. Low Countries paper etching / engraving fire (one of the four elements). Hades, the Underworld. Tartarus (and the condemned assigned there). Sisyphus pushing his boulder uphill or carrying it on his shoulders. Ixion on a burning wheel. Orpheus playing the lyre. Orpheus descending into Hades with his lyre in his hand
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