Birth of the Muses

Sculpture in Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.

Birth of the Muses

The sculpture in 2005

Artist| Jacques Lipchitz
Year| 1944–1950
Medium| Bronze sculpture
Location| Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.

Birth of the Muses is a 1944–1950 bronze sculpture by Jacques Lipchitz, installed on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) campus, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States.[1]

The piece Birth of the Muses "grew out of a series of small sketches from 1944 treating the theme of Greek mythological Pegasus. According to myth, this winged horse alighted on Mt. Olympus, where its four hooves touched the ground, four springs of water emerged in which the muses were born".[1]

## Syracuse University

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Another copy of the sculpture hangs at the Newhouse 1 building of the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications on Syracuse University campus.[2][3] It was donated in 1964 by Samuel Irving Newhouse Sr.[4]

## See also

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* Visual arts portal

* Muses in popular culture

## References

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1. ^ a b Art and Architecture at MIT: A Walking Tour of the Campus. Committee on the Visual Arts, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 1982. p. 76. Retrieved November 18, 2019.
2. ^ "Birth of the Muses, (sculpture)". Syracuse University Art Museum. Retrieved June 11, 2024.
3. ^ Laughlin, Wendy S. (August 11, 2020). "'The Eyes and Ears of Free Citizens'". Newhouse School at Syracuse University. Retrieved June 11, 2024.
4. ^ "Birth of the Muses, (sculpture)". Smithsonian American Art Museum. Retrieved June 11, 2024.

## External links

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* Birth of the Muses, 1944[permanent dead link] at cultureNOW

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Jacques Lipchitz

Sculptures|

* Birth of the Muses (1944-1950)
* John F. Kennedy Memorial, London (1965)
* Peace on Earth (1966)
* Bellerophon Taming Pegasus (1977)

Portrayals|

* Jacques and Berthe Lipchitz (1916 painting)

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Public art in Cambridge, Massachusetts

Works|

* Civil War Monument
* The End of the Red Line
* Galaxy: Earth Sphere
* Gift of the Wind
* Glove Cycle
* Irish Famine Memorial
* Statue of Charles Sumner
* Statue of John Bridge
* Untitled
* Washington Gate

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* Discobolus
* Night Wall I
* Robert Stow Bradley Jr. Memorial
* Statue of John Harvard

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Massachusetts
Institute of
Technology|

* Aesop's Fables, II
* Alchemist
* Angola
* Birth of the Muses
* Elmo-MIT
* Guennette
* Invaders
* La Grande Voile (The Big Sail)
* Reclining Figure (Lincoln Center)
* Sean Collier Memorial
* Three-Piece Reclining Figure: Draped 1975
* Transparent Horizon
* TV Man or Five Piece Cube with Strange Hole

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