Sujet

Cast of front panel of Roman sarcophagus of the Muses, late 18th cent Creator: Unknown.

Légende

Cast of front panel of Roman sarcophagus of the Muses, late 18th century. Cast of a sarcophagus that was once in the Capitoline Museum. The original object, of c160 AD/CE, was found in a tomb chamber on the Via Ostiense just outside Rome in the early 1700s. It was acquired by Capitoline Museum in 1733 but was given to France by the terms of the Treaty of Tolentino in 1797 and entered the Louvre collection in 1801 where it remains today. The panel shows the nine muses, companions of Apollo, with their attributes. They are from left to right: Calliope, the muse of epic poetry with a scroll; Thalia, muse of comedy with a comic mask; Terpsichore, muse of dance; Euterpe, muse of lyric poetry with a double flute; Polyhymnia, muse of sacred songs and hymns, leaning on a rock; Clio, muse of History with a writing-tablet; Erato, muse of Lyric poetry with a cithara; Urania, muse of astronomy, with a globe at her feet; and Melpomene, muse of Tragedy with a tragic mask. The Royal Academy acquired this cast from the sale of George Romney's possessions in 1801. Twenty-nine years later, in 1830, the Academy acquired another copy of the same cast from the collection of Thomas Lawrence.

Date

1775

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/Royal Academy of Arts

Notre référence

HRM26A44_453

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

25.2Mo (2.9Mo) / 44.7cm x 14.1cm / 5280 x 1669 (300dpi)

Mots clés

Italy female women woman people arts country Rome shape sculpture art British color death relief Roman location century burial Britain concept mythology cast mould frieze muse mold Plaster Cast Colour bas relief bas-relief 18th century Ancient Roman Ancient Rome Eighteenth Century sarcophagi sarcophagus sculpture Unknown Muses Royal Academy of Arts