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Two pale-skinned women wearing jewel-toned blue, pink, and yellow togas sit on the ground at the foot of a stone building, with three, winged, child-like putti flying nearby in this horizontal painting. The women take up most of the left half of the painting while the building behind them spans nearly three-quarters of the composition. A sliver of landscape is visible beyond the building to our right. Both women have dark, ash-brown hair wrapped back around diadems, long, straight noses, dark eyes, and smooth skin. Their cheeks are flushed, and their dark pink lips are parted. To our left,…

The Muses Urania and Calliope

Simon Vouet (French, 1590 - 1649)

c. 1634 · oil on wood

National Gallery of Art · Samuel H. Kress Collection

Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0)

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