Tuesday 4 June 2024
An Italian marble bust of Melpomene, Muse of Tragedy,After the Antique, late 18th / early 19th...
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An Italian marble bust of Melpomene, Muse of Tragedy,
After the Antique, late 18th / early 19th century,
Inscribed to base Melpomen, on a cylindrical marble socle, 66cm high
Lot Footnotes
Note: In her earliest incarnation Melpomene was known as the muse of singing. She was, however, later transformed into the ancient Greek muse of tragedy. The antique prototype upon which the present lot is based is the full-length 1st -2nd century AD Roman marble - itself a copy of an ancient Greek original - in the Museo Pio Clementino in the Vatican. In this full-length form she is represented holding a tragic mask and a dagger in each hand and wearing a crown of cypress leaves. Discovered in the Villa di Cassio near Tivoli in 1774, the statue appears to have achieved instant fame and inspired various copies by neoclassical sculptors active in the Eternal City, including Bertel Thorvaldsen. As here, she is often represented with abundant hair garlanded with vines, referencing the Dionysiac origin of the art form and the exaggerated masks worn by tragic actors.
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