Museum Audio Tour

This University project is an audio tour of the painting Orpheus Leading Eurydice from the Underworld. It includes dialogue, sound effects, looped ambience, and music. All sound was mixed in Pro Tools. For the best experience, use headphones.

*Orpheus Leading Eurydice from the Underworld* / *source: Museum of Fine Arts Houston*

Transcript:
“Orpheus Leading Eurydice from the Underworld, Camille Corot (1861), Oil on Canvas.
One of the greatest landscape painters of the 19th century, Camille Corot also completed large scale paintings based on mythological and biblical subjects for the annual Salon Exhibitions in Paris. In this painting, the fabled musician Orpheus leads his young wife Eurydice out of the underworld. In ancient times, it was believed that the deceased continued to exist as spirits, seen here gathered in small groups beneath the trees in the background. Corot depicts the young couple just before the tragic moment when Orpheus absentmindedly breaks the terms of her liberation by turning to look at her, thereby losing her forever to hell.”