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*Raphael Sanzio [http://www.abcgallery.com/R/raphael/raphael10.html] *Raphael Sanzio [http://www.abcgallery.com/R/raphael/raphael10.html]
*[[Jacopo Pontormo]] (1535) [http://www.wga.hu/html/p/pontormo/drawings/05graces.html] *[[Jacopo Pontormo]] (1535) [http://www.wga.hu/html/p/pontormo/drawings/05graces.html]
-*Hans Baldung Grien (1540)+*[[Hans Baldung Grien]] (1540)
*[[Jaques Blanchard]] (1631-33) ''Man surprising Sleeping Venus and Graces''[http://www.wga.hu/html/b/blanchar/index.html] *[[Jaques Blanchard]] (1631-33) ''Man surprising Sleeping Venus and Graces''[http://www.wga.hu/html/b/blanchar/index.html]
*[[Peter Paul Rubens]] [http://www.artchive.com/artchive/R/rubens/three_graces.jpg.html] *[[Peter Paul Rubens]] [http://www.artchive.com/artchive/R/rubens/three_graces.jpg.html]

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Three Graces refers to the Charites, figures of Greek mythology, goddesses of charm, beauty, nature, human creativity and fertility. In Roman mythology they were known as the Gratiae.

In art

On the representation of the Graces, Pausanias wrote,

"Who it was who first represented the Graces naked, whether in sculpture or in painting, I could not discover. During the earlier period, certainly, sculptors and painters alike represented them draped ... but later artists, I do not know the reason, have changed the way of portraying them. Certainly to-day sculptors and painters represent Graces naked."

In Renaissance times, the Roman statue group of the three graces in the Piccolomini library in Duomo di Siena inspired most themes. The Charites are depicted together with several other mythological figures in Sandro Botticelli's painting Primavera (above right). Raphael also pictured them in a painting now housed in Chantilly in France. Among other artistic depictions, they are the subject of famous sculptures by Antonio Canova and Bertel Thorvaldsen.

A group of three trees in the Calaveras Big Trees State Park are named "The Three Graces" after the Charites.

List of artwork with images resembling encircled graces

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