The Dance of the Muses on Helicon
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The Dance of the Muses on Helicon
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Published 2022-12-13T14:59:09+00:00
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Like the three Graces, the nine Muses are daughters of Jupiter. They live on Mount Helicon in Greece near the fountain of Hippocrene and are the goddesses of artistic inspiration. There is a festival when the god of the sun makes his way past Mount Helicon, and it is just such an occasion that the relief portrays. On a small mound in the middle of the relief we also see the three naked Graces. This is an adaptation of a relief that Thorvaldsen modelled as early as 1804.
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Technical Information
| Date published | 13/12/2022 |
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| Title | The Dance of the Muses on Helicon |
| Date | No earlier than March 25, 1844 |
| Dimension | Height 72.5 cm Width 159 cm |
| Accession | A340 |
| Medium | marble |
| Credit | https://kataloget.thorvaldsensmuseum.dk/en/A340 |
| Record | https://kataloget.thorvaldsensmuseum.dk/en/A340 |
| Artist | Bertel Thorvaldsen |
| Place | Thorvaldsens Museum |
Object Parts
I rotated this piece backward about 20 degrees, which allowed me to print without support. I then added two holes in the back to enable mounting. Oriented along the hypotenuse of my print bed, the piece has reasonable size, although I think now it should be divided into four parts, each about 25 cm long, to better suite the scale of the art.