Graces

British  

/ ˈɡreɪsɪz /

plural noun

1. Greek myth three sisters, the goddesses Aglaia, Euphrosyne, and Thalia, givers of charm and beauty

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Graces Cultural  

1. Greek and Roman goddesses of loveliness and charm. According to most stories, there were three of them. They were supposed to be invited to every banquet.

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Graces

Urs Fischer offers a literally waxen redeployment of antique statuary: a candle in the shape of the Three Graces, the central goddess facing backward, their absent heads turned into burning wicks.

From New York Times ● Apr. 20, 2023

A force over the forge at his downtown workspace, The Three Graces Studio, he is a one-man metalworking operation.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 18, 2021

This treatment of the Graces comes from a period when Flemish painting was highly specialized: In this case, Frans Wouters was responsible for the figures while Jan Brueghel the Younger painted the landscapes and flowers.

From Slate ● May 28, 2020

There’s also one at the museum, “Three Graces: Les Trois Femmes,” a piece the artist created in 2011.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 3, 2018

The arrangment of the figures recalls that of classical Graces, or else of the different-colored children wreathed around Jesus on the front of my old Sunday school paper.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood