Richard Littler3d ago
It seems that everywhere I turn at the moment I encounter a book (e.g., Murakami), film (Cocteau), music (Stravinsky, Monteverdi), painting, or whatever, that has some connection to Orpheus and his descent to the underworld in search of Eurydice.
Show threadRichard Littler3d ago
Just wow.
I Googled to see if 18th century artist Henry Fuseli had ever painted Orpheus and Eurydice, and AI overview said: "It appears you may be blending the tragic Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice with the distinct, spiraling noodle known as fusilli"
Show threadHilary

@Richard_Littler

Whereas I found this immediately by searching the non-AI version of Duck Duck Go with "did henry fuseli paint orpheus and eurydice"

https://www.jstor.org/stable/24555294

Jun 24 at 8:58amWeb
Show threadPetra van Cronenburg3d ago
@regordane 👍🏼 @Richard_Littler
Show threadHilary3d ago

@Richard_Littler

I just tried "fuseli orpheus eurydice" - as an experiment, to see what would happen using a search strategy that WASN'T informed by knowing what Google got wrong.

It actually worked better. The link came up as the first result, whereas for "did henry fuseli paint orpheus and eurydice" it came second under the Wikipedia entry for Fuseli.