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| [[File:Amore e Psiche,Canova (1757-1822), Retro.JPG|thumb|right|Alternative view from behind showing Cupid's arrows and the flask Psyche brought from the underworld, Louvre]] | [[File:Amore e Psiche,Canova (1757-1822), Retro.JPG|thumb|right|Alternative view from behind showing Cupid's arrows and the flask Psyche brought from the underworld, Louvre]] |
| Having been recently awakened, [[Psyche (mythology)|Psyche]](The manz) reaches up towards her lover, [[Cupid]], as he gently holds her by supporting her head and breast.<ref>Isabella Teotochi Albrizzi, Manlio Pastore Stocchi, and Gianni Venturi, ''Opere Di Scultura e Di Plastica Di Antonio Canova''. (Bassano del Grappa: Istituto di Nicerca per gli Studi su Canova e il Neoclassicismo, 2003), 76.</ref> Antonio Canova's fine technique in carving [[marble]] contrasts their realistic smooth skin with the surrounding elements. Loosely draped around Psyche's lower body, a sheet further emphasizes the difference between the texture of skin and drapery. Rough texture provides the basis of the rock upon which the composition is placed supplementing the distinctions of elements. Fine curls and lines make up the hair and light feathery details create realistic wings upon the landing Cupid. | Having been recently awakened, [[Psyche (mythology)|Psyche]] reaches up towards her lover, [[Cupid]], as he gently holds her by supporting her head and breast.<ref>Isabella Teotochi Albrizzi, Manlio Pastore Stocchi, and Gianni Venturi, ''Opere Di Scultura e Di Plastica Di Antonio Canova''. (Bassano del Grappa: Istituto di Nicerca per gli Studi su Canova e il Neoclassicismo, 2003), 76.</ref> Antonio Canova's fine technique in carving [[marble]] contrasts their realistic smooth skin with the surrounding elements. Loosely draped around Psyche's lower body, a sheet further emphasizes the difference between the texture of skin and drapery. Rough texture provides the basis of the rock upon which the composition is placed supplementing the distinctions of elements. Fine curls and lines make up the hair and light feathery details create realistic wings upon the landing Cupid. |
| In Apuleius, Psyche had been warned by [[Venus (mythology)|Venus]] against opening the jar she was given to collect a scrap of beauty from [[Proserpina]] for Venus: "But I give you one especially strong warning. Do not open or peep into the [jar] you carry, and repress all curiosity as to the "Imprisoned Treasure of Divine Beauty"."<ref name=Ap/> But she gave way to curiosity just as she had returned from her voyage into the [[Underworld]], peering into the jar to take some of the Divine Beauty for herself. However, Proserpina had not filled it with the Beauty, but rather with the "Sleep of the Innermost Darkness, the night of [[Styx]], which freed from its cell rushed upon her and penetrated her whole body with a heavy cloud of unconsciousness and unfolded her where she lay."<ref name=Ap/> It is the moment in which Psyche is "a corpse asleep" revived by Cupid that Canova chose to depict.<ref name=Ap/> "Delicately purging her of the Sleep, which he put back in its original lair the [jar], he roused Psyche with a charming prick of his Arrow."<ref name=Ap/> Various details such as the jar behind Psyche allude to the story by Apuleius as Psyche had just opened it and had gone to sleep thus the jar remains lying beside her. Additionally, the arrow which Cupid struck Psyche with to awaken her is also found near the jar and Cupid wears a quiver next to his waist. | In Apuleius, Psyche had been warned by [[Venus (mythology)|Venus]] against opening the jar she was given to collect a scrap of beauty from [[Proserpina]] for Venus: "But I give you one especially strong warning. Do not open or peep into the [jar] you carry, and repress all curiosity as to the "Imprisoned Treasure of Divine Beauty"."<ref name=Ap/> But she gave way to curiosity just as she had returned from her voyage into the [[Underworld]], peering into the jar to take some of the Divine Beauty for herself. However, Proserpina had not filled it with the Beauty, but rather with the "Sleep of the Innermost Darkness, the night of [[Styx]], which freed from its cell rushed upon her and penetrated her whole body with a heavy cloud of unconsciousness and unfolded her where she lay."<ref name=Ap/> It is the moment in which Psyche is "a corpse asleep" revived by Cupid that Canova chose to depict.<ref name=Ap/> "Delicately purging her of the Sleep, which he put back in its original lair the [jar], he roused Psyche with a charming prick of his Arrow."<ref name=Ap/> Various details such as the jar behind Psyche allude to the story by Apuleius as Psyche had just opened it and had gone to sleep thus the jar remains lying beside her. Additionally, the arrow which Cupid struck Psyche with to awaken her is also found near the jar and Cupid wears a quiver next to his waist. |
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