Muses1.0131_Thorvaldsen

OGCMA s.v. "Muses"
Thorvaldsensmuseum A

Bertel Thorvaldsen, 1770-1844, "Triumphant Muse and Cupid (in a biga)" plaster statuette pair 1827; ca. 65.5 cm tall, Copenhagen, Thorvaldsensmuseum A49 (shown) and A50 (click).

Terracotta sculpture depicting a draped female figure with a staff and an angelic child with wings on a decorative base

Thorvaldsen also engaged the imagery of the Muses in other works:

      "Euterpe" and "Terpsichore", a pair of statues = Muses1.0129_Thorvaldsen
      "Muses Dancing on Helicon" = Muses1.0130_Thorvaldsen
      "Triumphant Muse and Cupid" twice excuted plaster casts = Muses1.0131_Thorvaldsen
      series of roundel reliefs of the 9 Muses and Mnemosyne = Muses1.0132_Thorvaldsen
       “Muses: dance”, and “Muses: drama”; not this one is apparently not there.

OGCMA slides are designed by Roger T. Macfarlane for use in Classical Civilization 241 courses at Brigham Young University.
The present resource contains information assembled for The Oxford Guide to Classical Mythology in the Arts, 1400 – 1990’s, edited by J. Davidson Reid (Oxford 1994), and it is used with express permission from Oxford University Press.
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