Nine daughters of Jupiter and Mnemosyne, goddesses of poetry,
history, and other arts and sciences. The paintings of Herculancum show
all nine in their respective attributes. In the National-Museum of
Paris is
the famous collection with which Pius VI. enriched the Vatican.
Lesueur left a celebrated picture of the same subject.
More on Muses from Infoplease:
See a map of "" in the Visual Thesaurus
