# Terpsichore [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [TURA, Cosmè]() - Date: 1451-1500 - Technique: Panel, 118 x 81 cm ## Commentary This panel belonged to a cycle representing the nine Muses, which was commissioned by the rulers of Ferrara, Lionello and Borso d'Este for the decoration of the 'studiolo' in the Palazzo di Belfiore near Ferrara. Five other panels from the cycle are in museums in Ferrara, Berlin, Budapest. Terpsichore was one of the nine Muses of ancient Greece. She is the Muse of dancing and the dramatic chorus, and later of lyric poetry \(and in even later versions, of flute playing\). ## Related artworks - [A Muse \(Calliope?\)]() - [A Muse \(detail\)]() - [Adoration of the Magi \(from the predella of the Roverella Polyptych\)]() - [Alfonso d'Este]() - [Allegory of August: Triumph of Ceres \(detail\)]() - [Allegory of August: Triumph of Ceres \(detail\)]() - [Allegory of August: Triumph of Ceres \(detail\)]() - [Allegory of August: Triumph of Ceres]() - [Allegory of July: Triumph of Jupiter \(detail\)]() - [Allegory of July: Triumph of Jupiter]() - [Allegory of June: Triumph of Mercury \(detail\)]() - [Allegory of June: Triumph of Mercury]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()