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Cristo nuovo Orfeo

English translation: Christ, the New Orpheus


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Italian term or phrase:Cristo nuovo Orfeo
English translation:Christ, the New Orpheus
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18:26 Jan 27, 2012
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Art/Literary - Religion / Liturgical Atlas
Italian term or phrase: Cristo nuovo Orfeo
Caption to a picure in a liturgical Atlas.

Do they mean "the newly-risen Christ depicted as Orpheus" in this case?

"Cristo nuovo Orfeo e buon Pastore nel masaico pavimentale del battistero di Aquileia."

Grazie,

Barbara
Barbara Cochran
Local time: 23:51
Christ, the New Orpheus
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Orpheus And Eurydice - Mimesis
mimesis.org/orpheus.html
Orpheus and Eurydice are lovers, blissfully joined, when Eurydice is killed by a ... floor mosaic of Aquileia, where Christ is Orpheus and holds the Orphic (lute? .... divorced, or no: he may still be living with me, in bed next to rue, the stranger, ...
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Christ, the New Orpheus


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Orpheus And Eurydice - Mimesis
mimesis.org/orpheus.html
Orpheus and Eurydice are lovers, blissfully joined, when Eurydice is killed by a ... floor mosaic of Aquileia, where Christ is Orpheus and holds the Orphic (lute? .... divorced, or no: he may still be living with me, in bed next to rue, the stranger, ...

liz askew
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agree  missdutch: well done!
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agree  Isabelle Johnson: I agree
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CHRIST AS ORPHEUS IN EARLY CHRISTIAN ART
www.the-goldenrule.name/Orpheus-CHRISTIAN.../Orpheus-Christ...
Representations of Christ: 1. Christ as Good Shepherd, 3rd century, Cleveland Museum of Art; 2. Christ-Orpheus, 3rd century, Catacomb of Domitilla, Rome; 3.

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sure there isn't just a comma missing after Cristo,

Jesus n.7 luglio 2001 - Dossier - Nel nome del clown - Giocando nei ...
www.stpauls.it/jesus03/0107je/0107je56.htm - Translate this page
7 lug 2001 – ... ingiustizie esistenti e prefigurazione di rapporti nuovi; per mezzo del ... nella danza in risposta all'invito di Cristo, nuovo Orfeo (secondo la ...

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i.e.

Christ as the new Orpheus

Jesus Christ, sun of God: ancient cosmology and early Christian ... - Google Books Result
books.google.com/books?isbn=0835606961...David Fideler, David R. Fideler - 1993 - Body, Mind & Spirit - 448 pages
Orpheus the Theologian "ALL THEOLOGY among the Greeks is sprung from ... of Alexandria portrays Christ as the New Orpheus, and Christianity as the New ...


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