Olga Makho
The State Hermitage Museum; Saint Petersburg University of Film and Television, Russia
Muses appear to be pictured in art of the Renaissance from the mid-15th century, possibly ...
... the easiness of original perception, with the various “paths” leading from reality to ideas: “Apollo and the nine muses”, “Jupiter and Semele”, “Phaeton”, “Oedipus and the Sphinx”, “Orpheus at the tomb ...
... it is a derivative work from the statue of Calliope in the group of Muses of the Hellenistic Rhodian sculptor Philiscus. In 1513, the Friars of the Basilica of Saint Antony in Padua commissioned a statuette ...