Thursday, March 14, 2024

Melpomene - Muse of Tragedy

 

Pompeian Fresco (ca 70 AD)
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Ancient Roman (2nd C.)
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Eustache Le Sueur - The Muses Melpomene, Erato and Polyhymnia (mid 17th C.)
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Samuel van Hoogstraten (1658)
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Elisabetta Sirani (ca. 1660)
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Joshua Reynolds - David Garrick Between Tragedy and Comedy (1760)
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Nicolas Guy Brenet (2nd half 18th C.)
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Louis-Michel van Loo (1765)
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George Romney - Mrs Yates as Melpomene (1771)
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Pompeo Batoni - Aleksandra Potocka as Melpomene (1779)
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Joshua Reynolds - Mrs Siddons as the Tragic Muse (1784)
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Angelica Kauffmann (study, 1790)
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Angelica Kauffmann - Tragedy and Comedy (1791)
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Robert Fagan - Euterpe and Melpomene (ca. 1794)
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Statue in Klagenfurt (ca. 1800)
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Gustave Moreau - Hésiode et la Muse (1857)
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Giuseppe Fagnani (1869)
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Paul Baudry (ca. 1870)
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Joseph Blanc (1885)
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Edward Simmons (1896)
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Giuseppe Mazzei (early 20th C.)
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Alexander Rothaug (cropped, 1911)
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Sven Lindhart (mid 20th C.)
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Yoan Leviev (2000s)
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Alina Santana (2018)
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Leonid Ilyukhin (detail, 2018)
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Paolo Miguel Marinas (2021)
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