The Castalidi, 1905 (tempera and gold plaster decoration on canvas)

The Castalidi (Le Castalidi), by Adolfo de Carolis, 1905, 20th Century, tempera and gold plaster decoration on canvas, 200 x 148 cm Whole artwork view. Close-up of a bare-chested female figure, wearing a large white dress; she has got long, blond hair decorated with a laurel-oak crown; the woman, who represents a Muse, walks on a flowering grass; with her left hand she holds a lyre, with her right hand she lifts up a veil above her head; behind her, other three young women, with dreamy, pensive behaviours; on the background, the fountain and the large foliage of a tree with pale lilac flowers National Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art-GNAM