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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bronwen, post: 831919, member: 5833&quot;]The shell cameo is Thorvaldsen&#039;s Night, sort of:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.thorvaldsensmuseum.dk/en/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&amp;q=night" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.thorvaldsensmuseum.dk/en/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&amp;q=night" rel="nofollow">https://www.thorvaldsensmuseum.dk/en/search?utf8=✓&amp;q=night</a></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://fotoarkivet.thorvaldsensmuseum.dk/imgs/22/86/34132/large/A901.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>The figure in the painting is styled as a sibyl/wise woman &amp; has the attributes of a number of Muses.&nbsp; She is looking at a theatrical mask that is ambiguous, can&#039;t tell if it&#039;s the murder victim of Melpomene or the Bacchic figure of Thalia.&nbsp; The lyre goes with both Erato &amp; Terpsichore, the double flute belongs to Euterpe.&nbsp; The pan pipes would be appropriate to Thalia.&nbsp; I would say she is not herself a Muse but rather an allegorical representation of the performing arts.</p><p><br /></p><p>First piece is molded, an historical figure, so grubby it&#039;s hard to tell whether it&#039;s plaster or what.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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