Over the centuries many paintings and statues have been made showing this myth. In 1709 Jean Raoux made the painting shown above. The picture on the home page was painted by Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot  and its title is "Orpheus Leading Eurydice from the Underworld." Those were some of the many paintings of Orpheus and Eurydice. Literature that include this myth are "Orpheus" by Sir Osbert Sitwell, Orpheus: the Myth of the Poet by Chatrles Segal, and The Orpheus Myth and the Powers of Music by Vladimir L. Marchenkov. These are examples of pieces of art and literature that include this myth in them.    

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