The Muse of History

Johann Heinrich von Dannecker German

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Dannecker evolved a weighty, very distinguished style of neoclassicism after training in Paris and Rome. Comparisons with standing figures of Tragedy and History in a relief of 1789 and a seated Girl with a Bird of 1790 make it likely that Dannecker modeled our statuette in Rome or soon after his return to Stuttgart in 1789.

The Muse of History, Johann Heinrich von Dannecker (German, Stuttgart 1758–1841 Stuttgart), Terracotta, German, Stuttgart

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