ARTURO CARRERA
(Milan, 1897 - after 1937)
Calliope, circa 1935
Bronze, height 42.5 cm
Signed on the base "A.M. Carrera"
Calliope (in ancient Greek: ?a????p?, Kalliope) is a character in Greek mythology. She was the muse of epic poetry and her name means "beautiful-voiced".
"and you gave dear relatives and idiom to that sweet lip of Calliope that Love in Greece naked and naked in Rome adorning with a most candid veil, rendered in the bosom to Heavenly Venus"
(Ugo Foscolo - I sepolcri - verses 175-180)
