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K20.6 MUSE TERPSICHORE

Muse Terpsichore | Attic red figure vase painting
DETAILS
Museum Collection British Museum, London
Catalogue No. London 1847,0909.7
Beazley Archive No. 213511
Ware Attic Red Figure
Shape Amphora, Neck
Painter Attributed to the Peleus Painter
Date ca. 440 B.C.
Period Classical

DESCRIPTION

Detail of Terpsichore from a painting depicting the instruction of the poet Musaeus.

The Muse Terpsichore sits playing a harp. The Muse Melusa stands to her left with a cithara and the poet Musaeus to her right holding a tortoise-shell lyre (see image below).

DRAWING

Musaeus & the Muses | Drawing of Greek vase painting

Drawing of vase painting.

ARTICLES

Terpsichore