Artist and muse

Pictures by LIFE magazine photographers paying tribute to the artist at work, and the simple, beautiful human form -- the artist's muse.

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Oil painting, 'Scene from Twelfth Night', William Hamilton RA, ca. 1789

In Greek Mythology, there is a subset of spirits/goddesses under the guidance of Apollo known as muses. These entities exist to seek out creative people and …

The provocative painter tells A. M. Homes what his nudes are really all about. Photograph by Annie Leibovitz.

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A good studio for an artist is a very important place. Creative studios might sometimes look like a pile of rubbish or a mixed-up room, but this is where famous artists paintings are born!

Calliope was the muse of epic poetry, daughter of Zeus and Mnemosyne, and is believed to be Homer's muse, the inspiration for the Odyssey and the Iliad One account says Calliope was the lover of the war god Ares, and bore him several sons: Mygdon, Edonus, Biston, and Odomantus (or Odomas), respectively the founders of Thracian tribes known as the Mygdones, Edones, Bistones, and Odomantes.Calliope also had two famous sons, Orpheus and Linus.

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