Chapter Sections > Chapter III : Orpheus descending, falling

p. 25: Cy Twombly, 'Untitled', 1984, Gaeta, © Cy Twombly Foundation. Courtesy Archives Fondazione Nicola Del Roscio

p. 26: Cy Twombly 'Untitled', 1984, detail, Gaeta, © Cy Twombly Foundation. Courtesy Archives Fondazione Nicola Del Roscio

p. 28: Photograph of Rainer Maria Rilke, c. 1910

p. 29: Rilke's residence at Château de Muzot, Veyras, Switzerland

p. 30: Cima da Conegliano, 'Orpheus Playing for the Animals', c. 1505-10, Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence

p. 31: Temple of Segesta, c.420 BC, Sicily

p. 31: Marcantonio Raimondi, 'Orpheus and Eurydice', c.1507-8, Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence

p. 31: Nicolas Poussin, 'Landscape with Orpheus and Eurydice', 1650-3, Musée du Louvre, Paris

p. 31: Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, 'Orpheus Leading Eurydice From the Underworld', 1861, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

p. 32: François Perrier, 'Orpheus in the Underworld Playing Before Pluto and Persephone', c.1647-50, Musée du Louvre, Paris

p. 33: 'Orpheus and Eurydice', unidentified artist (after A. Carracci), c. 1600, Boston Museum of Fine Arts

p. 34: Auguste Rodin, 'Orpheus and Eurydice', 1887-93, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

p. 36: Cy Twombly, 'Orpheus', 1979, © Cy Twombly Foundation. Courtesy Archives Nicola Del Roscio

p. 38: 'Orpheus Singing to the Thracians', c. 450 BC, Orpheus Painter, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Antikensammlung

p. 39: Agostino Veneziano, 'Orpheus in Hades', 1528, Galerie degli Uffizi, Florence

p. 40: 'Black-figured Dinos with Boat', c. 500 BC, Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg

p. 42: Cy Twombly, 'Winter's Passage: Luxor', 1985, Porto Ercole, Kunsthaus Zürich, © Cy Twombly Foundation

p. 42: Cy Twombly, 'Winter's Passage: Luxor', installation view, Museum Brandhorst, Munich

p. 43: Cy Twombly, 'Orpheus', 1979, © Cy Twombly Foundation. Courtesy Archives Fondazione Nicola Del Roscio. Photo Mimmo Capone

p. 44: 'Death of Orpheus', 460 BC, Niobid Painter, Boston Museum of Fine Arts

p. 45: 'Death of Orpheus', 440-30 BC, Phiale Painter, Staatliche Antikensammlungen und Glyptothek, Munich

p. 45: Odilon Redon, ' Head of Orpheus Floating on the Water', 1881, Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo

p. 45: 'The Singing Head of Orpheus', c.440 BC, detail, Polygnotos Group, © Antikenmuseum Basel und Sammlung Ludwig

p. 45: Odilon Redon, 'Head of Orpheus', c.1881, Museum of Modern Art, New York

p. 45: 'Death of Orpheus', c. 500-450 BC, Dokimasia Painter, © Antikenmuseum Basel und Sammlung Ludwig

p. 46: Odilon Redon, 'Orpheus', 1903-10, Cleveland Museum of Art

p. 46: 'Death of Orpheus', c. 500-450 BC, detail, Dokimasia Painter, © Antikenmuseum Basel und Sammlung Ludwig

p. 47: Cy Twombly, 'Orpheus', 1975, Rome, © Cy Twombly Foundation. Courtesy Archives Fondazione Nicola Del Roscio. Photo Mimmo Capone

p. 47: 'Death of Orpheus', c. 500-450 BC, detail, Dokimasia Painter, © Antikenmuseum Basel und Sammlung Ludwig

p. 47: Cy Twombly, 'Untitled', 1983, Rome, © Cy Twombly Foundation

p. 50: Cy Twombly, 'Treatise on the Veil (Second Version)', 1970, Rome, © Cy Twombly Foundation. Courtesy Archives Nicola Del Roscio

p. 52: 'Orpheus, Eurydice and Hermes', Roman copy of Greek original by Callimachos, c. 420 BC, Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli

p. 53: Cy Twombly, 'Orpheus (Du unendliche Spur)', 1979, © Cy Twombly Foundation

p. 54: Cy Twombly, 'Untitled (Say Goodbye, Catullus, to the Shores of Asia Minor)', 1994, Menil Collection, Houston, © Cy Twombly Foundation. Courtesy Archives Nicola Del Roscio

p. 57: 'Black-figure Ship', c.550 BC, detail, Boston Museum of Fine Arts

p. 57: Cy Twombly, 'Lepanto I-III', 1996, © Cy Twombly Foundation. Courtesy Archives Nicola Del Roscio

p. 57: 'Attic Black Figure Ship', c. 525 BC, Antimenes Painter, Musée du Louvre

p. 57: Cy Twombly, 'Lepanto' 2001, detail, Part VI, Museum Brandhorst, © Cy Twombly Foundation. Courtesy Archives Nicola Del Roscio

p. 58: Cy Twombly, 'Untitled (Say Goodbye, Catullus, to the Shores of Asia Minor)',1994, detail, © Cy Twombly Foundation. Courtesy Archives Nicola Del Roscio

p. 60: Cy Twombly, 'Untitled (Say Goodbye, Catullus, to the Shores of Asia Minor)', 1994, detail, © Cy Twombly Foundation. Courtesy Archives Nicola Del Roscio

p. 61: Cyrene, Sanctuary of Apollo, 7th C BC, Libya, Photograph Courtesy of Martha Morse

p. 62: Cy Twombly, 'Quattro Stagioni', 1993-4, Part I: Primavera, © Cy Twombly Foundation. Courtesy Archives Nicola Del Roscio

p. 63: Cy Twombly, 'Quattro Stagioni', 1993-4, Part II: Estate, © Cy Twombly Foundation. Courtesy Archives Nicola Del Roscio

p. 63: Cy Twombly, 'Quattro Stagioni', 1993-4, Part III: Autunno, © Cy Twombly Foundation. Courtesy Archives Nicola Del Roscio

p. 63: Cy Twombly, 'Quattro Stagioni', 1993-4, Part IV: Inverno, © Cy Twombly Foundation. Courtesy Archives Nicola Del Roscio

p. 63: Cy Twombly, 'Coronation of Sesostris', 2000, Part V, © Cy Twombly Foundation. Courtesy Archives Nicola Del Roscio

p. 64: Cy Twombly, 'Lepanto', 2001, Part IX, © Cy Twombly Foundation. Courtesy Archives Nicola Del Roscio

p. 64: Cy Twombly, 'Coronation of Sesostris', Part VII, 2000, © Cy Twombly Foundation. Courtesy Archives Nicola Del Roscio

p. 64: Cy Twombly, 'Untitled', 1985, Bassano in Teverina), © Cy Twombly Foundation. Courtesy Archives Nicola Del Roscio

p. 65: Cy Twombly, 'Untitled', 1988, (A Painting in Nine Parts), Rome, © Cy Twombly Foundation. Courtesy Archives Nicola Del Roscio

p. 65: Claude Monet, 'Wisteria', 1917-19, left half

p. 66: Cy Twombly, 'Untitled', 1988, (A Painting in Nine Parts), Part V, Rome, © Cy Twombly Foundation. Courtesy Archives Nicola Del Roscio

p. 66: J.M.W.Turner, 'Venice: Looking across the Lagoon at Sunset', 1840, Tate, London

p.66: Claude Monet, 'Yellow Irises', detail, 1914-17, Musée Marmottan

p. 67: Cy Twombly, 'Untitled', (A Painting in Nine Parts),1988, Part IX, Rome, © Cy Twombly Foundation. Courtesy Archives Nicola Del Roscio

p. 67: Cy Twombly, 'Hero and Leandro', Part III, detail, 1984, © Cy Twombly Foundation. Courtesy Archives Nicola Del Roscio

p. 68: Cy Twombly, 'III Notes from Salalah', 2007, Note I, (Lexington, Virginia), © Cy Twombly Foundation. Courtesy Archives Nicola Del Roscio

p. 68: Cy Twombly, 'Untitled (VII)', 2008, (Lexington, Virginia), © Cy Twombly Foundation. Courtesy Archives Nicola Del Roscio

p. 69: Cy Twombly, 'Hero and Leandro', Part II, detail, 1984, © Cy Twombly Foundation. Courtesy Archives Nicola Del Roscio

p. 70: 'Orpheus and Eurydice', detail, Roman copy of 420 BC Greek original by Callimachos, Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli

p.71: Cy Twombly, 'Orpheus (Napoli), Sweep to Oblivion', 1975, © Cy Twombly Foundation. Courtesy Archives Fondazione Nicola Del Roscio

p. 72: Thomas Crawford, 'Orpheus and Cerberus', 1843, Boston Museum of Fine Arts

p. 73: Cy Twombly, 'Hero and Leandro', Part I, detail, 1984, © Cy Twombly Foundation. Courtesy Archives Nicola Del Roscio

p. 74: 'Death of Orpheus', c. 445 BC, manner of the Achilles Painter, Boston Museum of Fine Arts

p. 75: Cy Twombly, 'Hero and Leandro', Part II, detail, 1984, © Cy Twombly Foundation. Courtesy Archives Nicola Del Roscio

p. 77: Cy Twombly, 'Hero and Leandro', Part I, detail, 1984, © Cy Twombly Foundation. Courtesy Archives Nicola Del Roscio

p. 78: 'Orpheus Singing to the Thracians', c.450 BC, Orpheus Painter, Stattliche Museen zu Berlin, Antikensammlung