The Muses at the Museum

The Muses at the Museum

Dur­ing my vis­it to the Get­ty Vil­la, in Mal­ibu, Cal­i­for­nia, I dis­cov­ered this stun­ning sculp­ture! This is a Roman sculp­ture of three of the nine mus­es. It dates back to the mid-third cen­tu­ry BCE and was part of a large sar­coph­a­gus. The sculp­ture shows four indi­vid­u­als. The orig­i­nal sculp­ture held eight indi­vid­u­als, which includ­ed two more mus­es and two men.

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