Metal Statue

Whermacorde?

 

I think she used it to drive a spike into her foot!

 

Never mind, Hermachorde.

 

Now that that's settled, can we talk about Wermahandette?

 

This is like the bad joke, Greek takes his torn trousers to his tailor & asks, Eumenides? Tailor shoots back, Euripides?

 

All this got me to thinking about sham names for other Muses. Mnemosyne is the mother of the Muses, but the arts wouldn't survive today without Eleemosyne.

 

Thorvaldsen, you remembered, thanks Bronwen.

 

This is Terpsichore, muse of dance and chorus, shown with a lyre. She's supposed to sit on a mantle clock, but I had to put it away because the bonging was too loud and the guy who watches TV all the time didn't like it.

 

A lot of those Goddesses are depicted in a similar way but I still can’t explain the hammer. And not being able to read the mark, I’m lost.

 

This is where I put on my snotty pedant's voice to ask, Terpsichore according to whom? Have never seen anyone look less dance-y, while she fits quite well with the conventions for depicting Erato. Terpsichore seems to have been used much less than Erato in neoclassical art.

And in her super-snotty voice, she says, the instrument appears to be the similar-looking kithara, rather than a lyre. Apollo has been portrayed with each & so have the ladies he oversees.

I am going to be struck down for hubris one of these days, but have learned not to assume everything even the most esteemed authorities say is true. A search in the same database for Terpsichore returned only a few results with images, & one of them was the Muse Urania.

 

This is her.

 

Well done!

 

Yoohoo! @kardinalisimo Heads up - she has been found, see above.

Turns out this was a clue, as the clock is French & one of the other elements in the scene on top is an anvil.

 

All right, who knocked her hand off and stole the gear wheel. Seal off the building.

 

Well done. Thanks for helping IDing her.