Iconography

GODS AND MYTHS

Apollo / Census of Antique Art known to the Renaissance / Known prototypes / Sarcophagi / Rome, Villa Borghese (Apollo and the Muses)
Muses / Census of Antique Art known to the Renaissance / Known prototypes / Sarcophagi / Rome, Villa Borghese and Paris, Louvre (Wegner 76 and 206)
Muses / Individual / Thalia
Muses / Individual / Melpomene
Muses / Individual / Terpsichore
Muses / Individual / Calliope
Muses / With other figures / Apollo / Series of single figures

Further details

Belongs to the same sarcophagus as the fragments MA 1497 and MA 1500 in the Louvre; [Left to Right] Calliope with a scroll of epic poetry, Terpsichore with a double flute, Apollo playing cithara, Thalia with a mask of Silenus, Melpomene with a tragic mask

Artist or creator

Ancient Roman

Date

220 - 230

Location

Rome, Villa Borghese

Associated persons

Ian Jones (Photographer (digital))

Notes on photograph

Bibliographic Citation

Max Wegner, Die Musensarkophage (Die Antiken Sarkophagreliefs, 5, 3), Berlin 1966, p. 78f., no. 206, pl. 17; Paolo Moreno and Chiara Stefani, The Borghese Gallery, Touring Editore 2000, p. 69

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Acknowledgements

Record created with the generous support of the Dean’s Development Fund, School of Advanced Study’

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