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The Muses is a 1578 painting by Tintoretto showing the Muses from Greek mythology. It is recorded in the inventory of the collection of Guglielmo Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua in 1627 as hanging alongside Esther Before Ahasuerus in a passage in the Palazzo Ducale in Mantua. It was acquired from the Gonzagas by Charles I of Great Britain.
Print of Clio, made in the 16th–17th century. Preserved in the Ghent University Library. [2]The word Muses (Ancient Greek: Μοῦσαι, romanized: Moûsai) perhaps came from the o-grade of the Proto-Indo-European root *men-(the basic meaning of which is 'put in mind' in verb formations with transitive function and 'have in mind' in those with intransitive function), [3] or from root *men ...
All ten designs depict the specific muse on the reverse, while featuring the image of Apollo on the obverse; Apollo presided over the Muses. When Hercules is represented, he is called Hercules Musarum, or Musageta, that is, "The leader of the Muses." He was known by this name in Greece, and later in Rome, when his statue and those of the nine ...
When he became censor, he erected a portico around an earlier temple of Hercules, most likely that of Hercules Magnus Custos ("Hercules the Great Guardian") in the Campus Martius. He then transferred a statue group of the Muses from his private collection to dedicate at the temple, [10] which later housed the Roman poets' guild (collegium ...
The Muse Calliope is a character in the graphic novel Sandman, by Neil Gaiman.Her story, "Calliope" is in the 1990 trade paperback Dream Country.According to the comic's canon, Calliope was the youngest (rather than the eldest) Muse as well as a one-time lover of Dream, by whom she bore Orpheus.
Thalia on an antique fresco from Pompeii. In Greek mythology, Thalia (/ θ ə ˈ l aɪ ə / [1] [2] or / ˈ θ eɪ l i ə /; [3] Ancient Greek: Θάλεια; "the joyous, the flourishing", from Ancient Greek: θάλλειν, thállein; "to flourish, to be verdant"), was one of the Muses, the goddess who presided over comedy and idyllic poetry.
Parnassus or Apollo and the Muses is an oil painting by Nicolas Poussin, from c. 1631-1633. It was inspired by the famous Raphael 's Parnassus in the Stanza della Segnatura , and it is now held in the Prado Museum , in Madrid .
The Temple of Hercules Musarum in the Portico of Philippus in Gismondi's model, Museum of Roman Civilization. The Temple of Hercules Musarum (Aedes Herculis Musarum) was a Roman temple dedicated to Hercules Musarum ("Hercules of the Muses") located near the Circus Flaminius in the southern Campus Martius in ancient Rome.