| Birth of the Muses | |
|---|---|
,_MIT_Campus.JPG) 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]
- ^ 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.