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20-05-2026
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Muse

150 a.C. - 125 a.C.. Marble.
Room 072

This Greek statue of a Muse shows her wearing the high cothurni of the theatre on her feet, and she may have originally carried an instrument in her left arm. The dress she wears, a long chiton with a high belt and a cloak thrown backwards, is proper to Greek musicians. The seventeenth-century additions which it had were removed in the nineteenth century.

Technical data

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Inventory number
E000199
Author
Greek Sculptor
Title
Muse
Date
150 a.C. - 125 a.C.
Technique
Sculpted
Medium
Marble
Dimension
Height: 142 cm; Width: 56 cm; Depth: 44 cm
Provenance
Collection of Livio Odescalchi, Duke of Bracciano, Rome; Royal Collection (Felipe V's Collection, Royal Palace of La Granja de San Ildefonso, Segovia)

Bibliography +

Maffei, Paolo Alessandro, Raccolta di Statue Antiche e Moderne. Data in Luce Sotto I Gloriosi Auspici della Santita Di N.S. Papa Clemente XI, Roma, 1704, pp. lám. 20.

Hübner, Emil, Die Antiken Bildwerke in Madrid, Druck Und Verlag Von Georg Reimer, Berlín, 1862, pp. 61.

Conze, A; Puchstein, O, Beschreibung der antiken skulpturen mit ausschluss der pergamenischen fundstücke, en: Königliche Museen zu Berlin, W. Spemann, Berlin, 1891, pp. 95 s., n.º 220.

Barrón, Eduardo, Catálogo de la escultura. Museo Nacional de Pintura y Escultura, Imprenta y fototipia J. Lacoste, Madrid, 1908, pp. 149, lám.LXXIII, n.199.

Arndt, P.; Amelung, W, Photographische Einzelaufnahmen antiker Skulpturen, Múnich, 1912, pp. 1556.

Ricard, Robert, Marbres Antiques du Musée du Prado à Madrid, Féret & Fils, Burdeos, 1923, pp. 68.

Battaglia, E, Una statua di Musa velata, Bulletino della Commissione archeologica comunale di Roma, 62, 1934, pp. 7 ss., láms. 1, 3.

Eichler, F, Forschungen in Ephesos, V (1), 1953, pp. 59 s., fig. 102.

Blanco Freijeiro, Antonio, Catálogo de la escultura. Museo del Prado, Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid, 1957, pp. 107.

Adriani, Achille, Repertorio d'arte dell'Egitto greco-romano, II, Fondazione "Ignacio Mormino", Sicilia, 1961, pp. 35, n.º 132, lám. 69.

Pinkwart, Doris, Das Relief des Archelaos von Priene und die "Musen des Philiskos", Michael Lassleben Kallmünz, 1965, pp. 143 ss., 208 s.

Felletti Maj, Bianca Maria; Moreno, Paolo, Le pitture della casa delle Muse, III: Ostia, Istituto Poligrafico dello Stato, Roma, 1967, pp. 27, láms. 4, 2.

Pinkwart, Doris, Die Musenbasis von Halikarnass, Antike Plastik, 6, 1967, pp. 91 s., lám. 55b.

Gualandi, L, Sculture di Rodi, Annuario della Scuola archeologica di Atene e delle Missioni italiane in Oriente, 54, 1976, pp. 74, nota 3.

Paduano Faedo, L, I sarcofagi romani con muse, Aufstieg und Niedergang der römischen Welt, II (12,2), 1981, pp. 140 ss.

Blanco, Antonio; Lorente, Manuel, Catálogo de la escultura. Museo del Prado (2ª ed.), Patronato Nacional de Museos, Madrid, 1981.

Weski, E; Frosien Leinz, H, Das Antiquarium der Münchner Residenz, Katalog der Skulpturen, München: Hirmer, 1987, pp. 308, para n.º 189.

Pensabene, Patrizio, Il teatro romano di Ferento: architettura e decorazione scultorea, "L'Erma" di Bretschneider, Roma, 1989, pp. 73 ss., n.º 3, 4, láms. 65-69.

Faedo, L, Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae, VII, 1994, pp. 993, n.º 171a, lám. 716, s. v. Mousa, Mousai.

Walker, Stefanie, The sculpture Gallery of Prince Livio Odescalchi, Journal of the history of collections, VI, 1994, pp. 210, n.º 114.

Elvira Barba, Miguel Angel - Schröder, Stephan, Escultura clásica. Guía. Museo Nacional del Prado, Fundación Marcelino Botín - Museo del Prado, Santander, 1999, pp. 108.

Schröder, Stephan F, Catálogo de la escultura clásica: Museo del Prado II, Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid, 2004, pp. 197-199.

Other inventories +

Inv. Real Museo, 1857. Núm. 94.
94. Otro fragmmento de marmol griego. Alto 4 pies, 4 pulg.

Inscriptions +

199.
Inscribed in black. Plinth

Location +

Room 072 (On Display)

Expuesto
Update date: 20-05-2026 | Registry created on 28-04-2015

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