Muses

Drawings and Prints

American Decorative Arts

Greek and Roman Art

European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

European Paintings

The Robert Lehman Collection

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Drawings

Prints|Ephemera

Paintings

Stone Sculpture

Lapidary Work-Gems

Enamels

Vases

Gems

Ceramics-Pottery

Terracotta oinochoe: olpe (round-mouthed jug)

Marble head of a young woman, perhaps a muse

Green glass oval engraved on both sides

Marble sarcophagus with the contest between the Muses and the Sirens

Four Dancing Muses

Hercules and a Muse

Pegasus Crowned by a Muse

Pegasus Crowned by a Muse

Apollo sitting on Parnassus surrounded by the muses and famous poets

Apollo sitting on Parnassus surrounded by the muses and famous poets

Urania

Apollo and the Muses

A muse standing in a niche, left arm resting in a ledge

Apollo standing at left shooting a python with an arrow, above to the left are the muses and at right on a cloud Cupid approaching Apollo, from the "Story of Apollo and Daphne"

Envy or Avarice at the right being driven from the temple of the Muses by Hercules who raises a club, the muses watching from the left

Erato, from "Twelve Muses and Goddesses"

Calliope, from "The Muses and the Three Goddesses"

Melpomene, from "The Muses and the Three Goddesses"

Polyhymnia, from "The Muses and the Three Great Goddesses"

Euterpe, from "Twelve Muses and Goddesses"

Polyhymnia, from "Twelve Muses and Goddesses"

Euterpe

Calliope, from "Twelve Muses and Goddesses"

Terpsichore, from "Twelve Muses and Goddesses"

Urania, from "Twelve Muses and Goddesses"

Muses at the Foot of Mount Parnassus

Apollo and the Muses

A Muse

Three Muses seated below a flying putto who grasps a lyre with both hands, a cruciform composition, from a series of eight compositions after Francesco Primaticcio's designs for the ceiling of the Gallery of Ulysses (destroyed 1738-39) at Fontainebleau

Three Muses and a Putto with Cymbals, a cruciform composition, from a series of eight compositions after Francesco Primaticcio's designs for the ceiling of the Gallery of Ulysses (destroyed 1738-39) at Fontainebleau

Three Muses and a Gesturing Putto, from a series of eight compositions after Francesco Primaticcio's designs for the ceiling of the Ulysses Gallery (destroyed 1738-39) at Fontainebleau

Three Muses and a putto above with a lyre, from a series of eight compositions after Francesco Primaticcio's designs for the ceiling of the Ulysses Gallery (destroyed 1738-39) at Fontainebleau

Three Muses and a Gesturing Putto

Three Muses seated underneath a flying putto who gestures downward, a cruciform composition, from a series of eight compositions after Francesco Primaticcio's designs for the ceiling of the Ulysses Gallery (destroyed 1738-39) at Fontainebleau

Three Muses and a Putto with Cymbals, from a series of eight compositions after Francesco Primaticcio's designs for the ceiling of the Ulysses Gallery (destroyed 1738-39) at Fontainebleau

Three Muses and a Putto with a Lyre

Three Muses and a Putto with a Lyre, a cruciform composition, from a series of eight compositions after Francesco Primaticcio's designs for the ceiling of the Gallery of Ulysses (destroyed 1738–39) at Fontainebleau

Thalia

Inkstand with Apollo and the Muses

The Muses on Parnassus

Dido Reine de Cartage/ une Muse

Mirror; Minerva Visits the Muses on Mount Helicon

Five numbered scenes, each after a painter in the Accademia Degl'Incamminati, from IL FUNERALE D'AGOSTINO CARRACCIO FATTO IN BOLOGNA SUA PATRIA DAGL'INCAMINATI Academici del Disegno: 1. Virtue vanquishing Envy and Fortune, painted by Giulio Cesare Parigino; 2. Apollo and the Muses at the tomb of Agostino Carracci, painted by Luigi Valesio; 3. Mercury pointing to a constellation with the personification of Painting and that of the city of Bologna, Felsina, painted by Aurelio Benelli; 4. Personification of Painting being comforted by Poetry, and the personification of a river at right, painted by Lodovico Carracci; 5. Allegory of Knowledge and Vigilance chasing Envy out of Heaven, painted by Lorenzo Garbieri.

Two Muses

Study for the Muse Urania

Les neuf Muses

Frontispiece for "The Works of Scarron" (Œuvres de Scarron)

Apollo and the Nine Muses surrounded by Poets on Mount Parnassus

Ancient Statue of the Muse Thalia

Landscape with Apollo and the Muses

The Nine Pierides Transformed into Magpies after Their Unsuccessful Competition with the Muses (Ovid, Metamorphoses, V, 294 ff.)

A Muse

A Muse

Plate XVII (17): A Muse, from "Museum Florentinum" (Statuae antiquae dorum et virorum illustrium)

The Muses Thalia and Erato

Temple of the Muses

The Muse Erato Writing Verses Inspired by Love

Shakespeare Seated Between the Dramatic Muse and the Genius of Painting, from "Boydell's Shakespeare Gallery"

The Muses Euterpe, Polyhymnia, Calliope, Clio, and Terpsichore (recto); Sketch of a Sleeping Child (verso)

Thalia