Caryatid portico inspired by the Erectheion in Athens, Greece The caryatids represent Muses
"In 1905 American sculptor Augustus
Saint Gaudens created a caryatid porch for the Albright-Knox Art
Gallery in Buffalo, New York in which four of the eight figures (the
other four figures holding only wreaths) represented a different art
form, Architecture, Painting, Sculpture, and Music" - Wikipedia (September 2012) |