''Birth of the Muses'' is a 1944–1950
bronze sculpture
Bronze is the most popular metal for Casting (metalworking), cast metal sculptures; a cast bronze sculpture is often called simply "a bronze". It can be used for statues, singly or in groups, reliefs, and small statuettes and figurines, as w ...
by
Jacques Lipchitz
Jacques Lipchitz (26 May 1973) was a Cubist sculptor. Lipchitz retained highly figurative and legible components in his work leading up to 1915–16, after which naturalist and descriptive elements were muted, dominated by a synthetic style of ...
, installed on the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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(MIT) campus, in
Cambridge, Massachusetts
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, United States.
The piece ''Birth of the Muses'' "grew out of a series of small sketches from 1944 treating the theme of Greek mythological
Pegasus. According to myth, this winged horse alighted on Mt. Olympus, where its four hooves touched the ground, four springs of water emerged in which the muses were born".
See also
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Muses in popular culture
Representations or analogues of one or more of the nine Muses of Greek mythology have appeared in many different modern fictional works.
The list of Muses comprises:
# Calliope, the Muse of epic poetry
# Clio, the Muse of history
# Erato, the ...
References
External links
''Birth of the Muses'', 1944at cultureNOW
Bronze sculptures in Massachusetts
Massachusetts Institute of Technology campus
Outdoor sculptures in Cambridge, Massachusetts
Sculptures by Jacques Lipchitz
Statues in Massachusetts
Greek Muses
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