Tag: Apuleius

Cupidon et Psyché (1817)

David, Jacques-Louis (1748-1825) Cupidon et Psyché (Cupid and Psyche) 1817 Oil on canvas, 184.2 x 241.6 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Jacques-Louis David included two butterflies in this painting: one above the slumbering Psyche and the other on the base…

Apuleius

(c.124-c.170) Lucius Apuleius Madaurensis Works: • Amor ja Psyke (Finnish) • Apologia sive pro se de magia (Latin) • De deo Socratis (Latin) • De mundo (Latin) • De Platone et eius dogmate, Liber I (Latin) • De Platone et…

Cupidon et Psyché (1867)

Legros, Alphonse (1837-1911) Cupidon et Psyché (Cupid and Psyche) exhibited 1867 Oil on canvas, 116.8 × 141.4 cm Tate Britain, London The tale of Cupid and Psyche was written by the Roman poet Lucius Apuleius. Psyche was given a box, supposedly…

Nicolas Poussin

(1594–1665) The artist’s works: Bacchanale 1625–1626 Museo del Prado, Madrid Le Massacre des Innocents 1626–1627 Petit Palais, Paris La Déposition de la croix 1627–1628 Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg La Fuite en Egypte 1627–1628 Worcester Art Museum, Worcester La mort de Germanicus 1627 Minneapolis Institute…

Jacques-Louis David

(1748–1825) The artist’s works: La mort de Sénèque 1773 Petit Palais, Paris La mort de Socrate 1787 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York La mort de Socrate after 1787 Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton Marat Assassiné 1793 Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, Brussels Portrait…

Amore e Psiche (1800-1803)

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…

Amore e Psiche (1796)

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…