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Triple Hekate and the Three Graces

Late 2nd century BC

Marble

Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Venezia

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The Graces Listening to Cupid’s Song

1836

Bertel Thorvaldsen (1770–1844)

Executed by Johann Scholl in Thorvaldsen’s studio in Rome

Marble

Thorvaldsens Museum

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The relief was originally modelled for a memorial in the Academy of Fine Art in Milan to the Italian painter Andrea Appiani (1754–1817), known as the painter of the Graces. The Graces are supporting each other in sorrow at the painter’s death and find consolation in Cupid’s music.

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Cupid and the Graces

1831

Bertel Thorvaldsen (1770–1844)

Marble

Thorvaldsens Museum

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