#the poet Orpheus

[blueiskewl]

The Getty Museum Will Return a Cache of Illegally Sourced Ancient Sculptures to Italy

The life-size statues, depicting the poet Orpheus with a pair of sirens, will be returned alongside other works.

The J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles will return three ancient terracotta sculptures and other artworks to Italy after an investigation revealed the objects to have been illegally sourced.

Dating to between 350 and 300 BCE, the life-size statues depict the poet Orpheus seated with a pair of standing sirens. All three pieces, which are believed to have come from the Puglia region of southern Italy, have been removed from view as the museum prepares to return them to Rome in September.

An investigation into the alleged antiquities smuggler Gianfranco Becchina led the Manhattan District Attorney’s Antiquities Trafficking Unit to Orpheus and the Sirens, according to the New York Times. The unit and its chief, Matthew Bogdanos, seized the sculptures in April. The Trafficking Unit’s warrant listed the value of the three sculptures at $8 million.

“Thanks to information provided by Matthew Bogdanos and the Antiquities Trafficking Unit of the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office indicating the illegal excavation of Orpheus and the Sirens, we determined that these objects should be returned,” Getty Museum director Timothy Potts said in a statement.

By the time the statues were confiscated this year, the museum had already engaged in discussions about repatriating those and other relics.

Research conducted by Getty and independent scholars determined that four additional artworks, none of which have been displayed in recent years, were also eligible for return to Italy. These include a marble head and stone mold for casting pendants, both from the second century AD; an 1881 oil painting by Camillo Miola; and a fourth-century BCE Etruscan bronze thymiaterion, or incense burner.

The first three objects were acquired by Getty in the 1970s, the museum said, while the thymiaterion was purchased in 1996. The institution said it was working with the Italian Culture Ministry to determine a date of return for these artifacts.

“We value our strong and fruitful relationship with the Italian ministry of culture and with our many archaeological, conservation, curatorial, and other scholarly colleagues throughout Italy, with whom we share a mission to advance the preservation of ancient cultural heritage,” Potts said.

Previously considered to be among the Getty Museum’s greatest treasures, Orpheus and the Sirens is expected to go on temporary display at the Museum of Rescued Art in Rome.

After that, the Times reported, the sculptures will be relocated to the city of Taranto, in Puglia.

#The J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles #The Getty Museum Will Return a Cache of Illegally Sourced Ancient Sculptures to Italy #looted art #stolen art #statues #roman statues #ancient terracotta sculptures #the poet Orpheus #fourth-century BCE Etruscan bronze thymiaterion #archeology #archeolgst #ancient artifacts #history #history news #ancient history #ancient culture #ancient civilizations #ancient rome #roman empire

[addieclo]

I took both that poet, soldier, king quiz and then I took the what Greek tragedy are you quiz and why are people making quizzes reading me to filth? Like I know what I am but can the kids stop making quizzes that hit home 🤣😅

#the poet #poet king soldier #soldier poet king #king soldier poet #what Greek tragedy are you #orpheus #the poet Orpheus #I need muses to write 😂 #tis true

[anthonysperkins]

The Orphic Trilogy dir. Jean Cocteau: Testament of Orpheus (1960) Orpheus (1950) The Blood of a Poet (1930)

#The Orphic Trilogy #Jean Cocteau #Testament of Orpheus #Édouard Dermit #Orpheus #Jean Marais #The Blood of a Poet #Enrique Riveros #* #** #movies #lgbt media #vintage gay #parallels #filmedit #lgbtedit #usergina #userteri #userlenie #userlenny

[weirdlookindog]

Le sang d'un poète (1932)

#le sang d'un poète #the blood of a poet #1930s movies #1932 #jean cocteau #fantasy #experimental #avant garde #orpheus trilogy

[meanwhilepoetry]

When we speak of Orpheus, we remember him as the boy who could charmed his way into the underworld with his music. The boy who convinced even the dread king and queen of the dead to give him his lost love back. The boy who lost the love of his life due to his own folly, he looked back, he looked back when he shouldn't have. His grief takes up all the pages we can give him, he tells us his story and we mourn at his side. But less is spoken of Eurydice. The girl who lost her life so cruelly on her wedding day. The girl who never stopped hoping that the boy she loved would find her even in this cold place, he would find her because their love was stronger than death itself. There is little said of her utter betrayal to see her only second chance at life bartered for an impatient glance.  Perhaps it is easier to know Orpheus' mortal grief than it is to acknowledge Eurydice's eternity of devastation. After all, dead women can tell no stories. And even if they could, the world has already been taught not care.

Eurydice, Nikita Gill

#spilled ink #poetry #poem #writing #poets of tumblr #spilled thoughts #words #thoughts #greek myths #myth poem #eurydice #orpheus #women's stories #women's pain

[depressed-linguist]

lute song, louise glück

#dark academia #dark acadamia aesthetic #poetry #art #beauty #words #light academia #mine #louise glück #writers and poets #sad poetry #greek myths #orpheus #orpheus and euridyce #orfeo ed euridice

[basicallyanotherwitchesthing]

Jean Cocteau - Two Screenplays - Pelican - 1969 (cover design by George Klauber)

#witches #screenplayers #occult #vintage #two screenplays #screenplays #the blood of a poet #the testament of orpheus #pelican books #jean cocteau #1969 #george klauber

[thorns-in-daisy-fields]

Icarus

flung himself

towards the

sun,

-

Orpheus

crossed

the point of

no return,

-

and Achilles

tipped the scales

at the price of his life

for the relief

of his lover's justice.

-

-

And me?

-

-

I sit on

my bedroom floor

with my head

between my knees

knowing love and grief

walk hand in hand

with fear and madness

following close behind.

-

-

I felt Icarus stumble

with clumsy wings

as he chased the one thing

that kept him from

freezing to death

-

He hugs me around the neck.

He whispers into my ear,

"It is worth it."

He squeezes me as if to beg

me to listen.

As if we'll both regret it if I don't.

"It is worth it. It is worth it. It is worth it."

-

So I ignore the warnings.

I ignore the flames.

I ignore the water.

-

Because

according to Icarus

it is worth it.

-

It is worth it. It is worth it. It is worth it.

-

-

I felt Orpheus' life crumble

at the alter

as he lost everything

that made his life

worth living.

-

He taps my shoulder

as I walk through Hades' trial.

I keep my eyes facing forward.

"There are no second chances here"

he warns me, his voice just above

a whisper.

"You might as well gouge your eyes out now

if you still want to stand a chance."

I squeez then shut instead.

-

Though, I wonder if he is right.

-

Before I know it, I'm looking for something to do it with

because Orpheus said

it was my only hope.

-

-

I felt Achilles scream and tear his hair out

when he found

his whole world

gone.

I felt the earth shudder as he

cried.

-

He stands beside me like a soldier.

He leans closer as he speaks,

his voice carrying the calmness

of a broken man.

"I say do what you will..."

-

He is quiet for a long moment.

I watch him for an answer.

He seems annoyed.

As if

his answer is obvious.

-

"...You see, you'll do everything

you can,

and they'll still be gone,

and it will still

be your fault...

And when it's over?"

He pauses again

and his silence weighs my chest down.

"Well..."

He doesn't say anything else.

-

He doesn't say anything else because he doesn't need to.

-

Icarus is a dead man.

Orpheus is a dead man.

Achilles

is

a

dead

man.

-

-

They are dead because love and

tragedy

go hand in hand,

yet they still had the courage

to follow

close behind.

-

-

-is gouging my eyes out really the answer?

#poetry #writers on tumblr #writeblr #poem #love #poets corner #writing #poesia #love poem #greek tumblr #greek hades #greek mythology #greek icarus #icarus #orpheus #greek orpheus #achilles #greek Achilles #my guilty pleasure is writing very dramatic poetry to cope with mental illness and life events #my world is not ending #I'm just experiencing emotions and hardships #I think

[almostsomewheremaybe]

Slender Aphrodite stepped into my study. Orpheus with all devotion played a song for her efforts. I hardly noticed. I was too preoccupied with thoughts of you.

#poetry #poem #writing #love #spilled ink #spilled poetry #poet #poets on tumblr #spilled thoughts #spilled words #lovecore #poets corner #spilled prose #prose #aphrodite #orpheus #ancient greek #greek mythology

[ultimate-tragic-couples-showdown]

Round 3 - Poll 5

Neil Perry & Todd Anderson (Dead Poets Society) vs Orpheus & Eurydice (Hadestown) vs Vash the Stampede & Nicholas D Wolfwood (Trigun)

#tragedy main polls #polls #tumblr polls #hadestown #dead poets society #dead poets society spoilers #todd anderson #anderperry #neil perry #dps spoilers #dps #hadestown spoilers #orphydice #orpheus #eurydice #vashwood #vash the stampede #vash #nicholas d wolfwood #trigun spoilers #trigun

[roukabi]

Had to get something out for today's @reevepheusweek prompt! Consider the following: Foxpheus

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#originally i said to myself 'idk i think he should be drawn as human ppl like the human art more' #then i remembered that i am alive and i can draw whatever the hell i want #it's not a roukabi piece if it doesn't have furries after all #anyway. i'm gonna miss my og darlingest favorite-est poet so bad....... i might just pass away......... (JOKING) #hadestown #hadestown fanart #orpheus #orpheus hadestown #hadestown broadway #furry #furry art #reeve carney #fox #art #hadestown art #rook draws! #rook roars! #orpheus week #orpheusweek

[morverenmaybewrites]

I dont wanna say this but girl we should stop being obsessed with dead people. It's unhealty

What do you mean, anon? Do you mean Yoriichi Tsugikuni?

Or Kyoujurou Rengoku?

Because let me tell you, anon, I am not on this site because I have healthy coping mechanisms. Like. At all.

#ask #anon #this made me laugh #bec when it comes to being unhealthily attached to dead people call me yuta okkotsu #what do you mean stop being obsessed #i am laodamia my voice cracking with the weight of grief and leaping into a fire so i can follow them into death #i am orpheus with his lyre descending to the underworld to bring them back so they can feel sunlight on their face once again #and in failing either i am a nameless nymph who will weep over their deaths until my tears have turned me to stone or a tree #or perhaps a rush of reeds beside a riverbank and should a poet make a set of pipes out of me i will play only the saddest of songs #let my grief be such that it will break the hearts of kings long after i am gone #I AM NOT ON THIS SITE TO BE HEALTHY

[jomarchswritingjacket]

orpheus: *turns around*

orpheus: *cries*

orpheus: it’s like i’m part of the tortured poets department or something

#orpheus #hadestown #taylor swift #the tortured poets department

[evadneares]

Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, "Orpheus Leading Eurydice from the Underworld" (1861)

"...and here I am just like I was in Vienna and your hand is in my own as long as you leave it there."

Franz Kafka, "Letters to Milena"

#writing #writers and poets #writerscommunity #writers on tumblr #creative writing #literature #writers #writer things #quotes #franz kafka #letters to milena #milena jesenská #camille corot #jean baptiste camille corot #orpheus leading eurydice from the underworld #1861 #orpheus #eurydice #greek mythology

[serenityscribes]

Echoes (2023)

Like Orpheus and his Eurydice I’d tell our tale Again and again Just to spend These fragments with you In hopes of the day We find our way Out into the light

E. Ecker, August 2023

#poetry #poetry-blog #poems #poets of tumblr #writers of tumblr #original writing #original poem #poem #creative writing #original poetry #hadestown #orpheus and eurydice #orpheus #eurydice #show the way #shush

[sadgirlbadpoems]

As Orpheus looked high and low for Eurydice I will never stop chasing you.

I will follow you into the bowels of hell and let you damn me with you.

Would that I be granted the chance to bring you home again, like the fabled lovers of old let me carry you upon my back so that I may not be tempted to gaze on you as I always am.

If I lost you to the cold hands of death I would wait for you, stay by my side and let me hold you.

#original poem #writeblr #writers and poets #girlhood #poetry #relationship #love poem #orpheus #eurydice #orpheus and eurydice #hadestown broadway #the fates #hadestown #lost lovers