Tiziano (c.1488-1576) & Workshop Venere e il suonatore di liuto (Venus and the Lute Player) c.1565–1570 Oil on canvas, 165.1 x 209.6 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Venus, the goddess of love, interrupts her music making to be crowned…
Canova, Antonio (1757-1822) Amore e Psiche (Cupid and Psyche) 1800–1803 Marble, h. 148 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg Entered the Hermitage in 1815; previously in the collection of Jósephine de Beauharnais in the Castle of Malmaison near Paris. By the end…
Canova, Antonio (1757-1822) Amore e Psiche (Cupid and Psyche) 1796 Marble, 148 x 172 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg The theories of Neoclassicism, formulated in the works of the German scholar and philosopher Johann Joachim Winckelmann, were vividly embodied in the…
Canova, Antonio (1757-1822) Amore e Psiche in piedi (Cupid and Psyche Standing) c.1797 Marble, height: 145.1 cm; width: 63 cm; depth: 56 cm; diameter: 74 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris See also: • Apuleius (c.124-c.170): Psyche et Cupido (Latin)
Canova, Antonio (1757-1822) Amore e Psiche che si abbracciano (Psyche Revived by Cupid’s Kiss) 1787–1793 Marble, 155 x 168 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris See also: • Apuleius (c.124-c.170): Psyche et Cupido (Latin)