Muse 1: Cover Art
Grave Relief: Girl with Pigeons, Met Museum of Art
Date: ca. 450–440 B.C.
Culture: Greek
Medium: Marble, Parian (Stone Sculpture)
Dimensions: 80.6 cm (H) x 37 cm (L)
Width (top): 37 cm
Width (base): 39.4 × 10.2 cm
Weight: 59.4 kg (131 lb.)
-Credit: Fletcher Fund, 1927
“The gentle gravity of this child is beautifully expressed through her sweet farewell to her pet doves. Her peplos is unbelted and falls open at the side, while the folds of drapery clearly reveal her stance. Many of the most skillful stone carvers came from the Cycladic Islands, where marble was plentiful. The sculptor of this stele could have been among the artists who congregated in Athens during the third quarter of the fifth century B.C. to decorate the Parthenon.”
-The Metropolitan Museum of Art