Muse Finding the Head of Orpheus
According to Greek myth, the women of Thrace tore Orpheus, a mythical poet, to pieces after he rejected their advances. His head floated across the Mediterranean Sea to the island of Lesbos, which then became the foremost center for lyre music in antiquity. Berge, a native of...
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Lily Berge [wife of the artist], Baltimore; by bequest to Walters Art Museum, 1985.
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