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Siddende muse med teatermaske og tympanon, Thalia
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Copy in plaster acquired 1896 as one of a group of muses made in antique, Roman times around the 2nd. Century BCE, to adorn a room at Emperor Hadrian’s villa outside Rome. Thalia means “The flourishing”. She is the daughter of Zeus and Mnemosyne (memory) and muse of light genre of theatre, comedy, poetry and songs. The Muses have lent their name to the phenomenon “Museum”.
Title: Siddende muse med teatermaske og tympanon, Thalia
Description:
Copy in plaster acquired 1896 as one of a group of muses made in antique, Roman times around the 2nd.
Century BCE, to adorn a room at Emperor Hadrian’s villa outside Rome.
Thalia means “The flourishing”.
She is the daughter of Zeus and Mnemosyne (memory) and muse of light genre of theatre, comedy, poetry and songs.
The Muses have lent their name to the phenomenon “Museum”.