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Description: Apollo and the Nine Muses (rotunda decoration)

TitleApollo and the Nine Muses (rotunda decoration)

Creator nameSargent, John Singer

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1921

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions111 1/2 × 168 3/4 in. (283.2 × 428.6 cm)

LocationMuseum of Fine Arts, Boston

https://www.mfa.org/collections/object/apollo-and-the-muses-31933

Accession number21.10512

SubjectsMuses (Greek deities) in artPainting, American--20th centuryGods, Greek, in art

StatusInstalled in the Rotunda at the MFA Boston in 1921

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Chapter 1. Thomas McKeller, John Singer Sargent, and Isabella Stewart Gardner: An Introduction

Nathaniel Silver

Boston’s Apollo: Thomas McKeller and John Singer Sargent

What do John Singer Sargent’s (1856–1925) painting of Atlas (1921–25), his mural Entering the War (1922), and his portrait of Abbott Lawrence Lowell (1923–24) have in common with Cyrus Dallin’s (1861–1944) sculpture of Massasoit (1920)? At first glance, very little....

Author

Nathaniel Silver

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.11-39

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00277.001

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Chapter subject tags:World War, 1914-1918Mural painting and decoration, AmericanWomen art collectorsArtists' preparatory studiesArtists' models, Black

5. The Capitoline and Vatican Sculpture Galleries: Temples of Art and the Religion of Beauty

William L. Vance

America’s Rome: Volume I—Classical Rome

John Singer Sargent’s Roman sketchbook of 1869 contains—besides a pale gray wash of the Colosseum and a drawing of the white oxen of the Campagna—studies by the sixteen-year-old artist of the Laocoon and the Apollo Belvedere in the Vatican ...

Author

William L. Vance

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.182-392

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00010.010

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Chapter subject tags:Sargent, John Singer, 1856-1925Painting, American--19th centuryArtists--Travel--Italy--RomeJames, Henry, 1843-1916Winckelmann, Johann Joachim, 1717-1768West, Benjamin, 1738-1820Laocoön (Legendary character)Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892American literature--19th centuryGreenough, Horatio, 1805-1852Sculpture, American--19th centuryRome (Italy)--In literatureSculpture, Roman

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