Bronze sculpture – The three graces

Bronze “The Three Graces”, sculpture of the three Greek goddesses on a thick black marble base.

Statuette made using the lost wax technique, which consists of replacing the wax model in the mold with bronze, creating a quality bronze as in the past.

Height: 20 cm – Width: 10 cm – Depth: 7 cm

Weight: 2 kgs

Who are the three Graces?

Euphrosyne is joy taken to its peak, the jubilation, the joy of living that one feels at a banquet (such as the eternal banquet of the gods in which men participated at the beginning of the story of the Theogony);

Thalia is the personification of abundance, even superabundance, the overflow of life, which is given as a gift;

Aglaé is beauty at its most dazzling, splendor. She is the youngest and is considered by Hesiod to be the wife of Hephaestus instead of Aphrodite. Finally, Aglaé is also the messenger of Aphrodite.

Like all gods and goddesses, they are eternally young and beautiful, at the age that the Greeks considered that of fullness, between fifteen and twenty years old.

The three Graces in Roman mythology or Charites, but also present in Greek mythology are three goddesses who embody and personify life in its fullness: beauty, creativity, fertility, but also seduction and nature.

The Graces also called the Charities

The Charites were depicted wearing a long chiton and wearing a crown, towards the end of the 4th century BC, they are depicted as young, slender virgin women, holding each other by the hand, shoulder and waist:

One of the Three Charities turns her gaze in the opposite direction to the others, in a sort of dance; often naked, or dressed in light fabrics without clasps or belts and sometimes with a floating veil. In some figurines they hold in their hands, one or more roses, a dice and a branch of myrtle.