Psyche Revived by Cupid's Kiss

Psyche Revived by Cupid's Kiss

Sculpture


title = Psyche Revived by Cupid's Kiss
artist = Antonio Canova
year = 1787-1793, 1800-1803
type = White marble
height = 155
inch = 61
city = Paris
museum = Louvre;Saint Petersburg, Hermitage Museum

Antonio Canova's statue "Psyche Revived by Cupid's Kiss", first commissioned in 1787, exemplifies the Neoclassical obsession with love and emotion. It represents the god Cupid in the height of love and tenderness, right after awakening the lifeless Psyche with a kiss, a scene excerpted from Lucius Apuleius' "The Golden Ass". A masterpiece of its period, it appeals to the senses of sight and touch, yet simultaneously alludes to the Romantic interest in emotion co-existing with Neoclassicism.

Joachim Murat donated the first version (pictured) to the Louvre Museum in Paris, France in 1824cite web
last1 = Monaghan
first1 = Sean M.
last2 = Rodgers
first2 = Michael
title = French Sculpture 1800-1825, Canova
date = 1998-07-17
url = http://gallery.sjsu.edu/paris/the_academy/canova.htm
accessdate = 2007-12-28] ; Prince Yusupov, a Russian nobleman who acquired the piece in Rome in 1796, gave a later version (created in 1796) to the Hermitage Museum in Saint PetersburgCitation
title = The State Hermitage Museum: Collection Highlights
year = 2006
url = http://www.hermitagemuseum.org/html_En/03/hm3_3_3_1c.html
accessdate = 2007-12-28 ] . The plaster cast for this later version is now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New YorkCitation
title = Antonio Canova: Plaster Model for Cupid and Psyche
year = 2007
url = http://www.metmuseum.org/TOAH/hd/neoc_1/hod_05.46.htm
accessdate = 2008-02-11 ] .

Notes

ee also

*The Louvre Museum

External links

* [http://www.louvre.fr/llv/activite/detail_parcours.jsp?CURRENT_LLV_PARCOURS%3C%3Ecnt_id=10134198673226917&CONTENT%3C%3Ecnt_id=10134198673226762&CURRENT_LLV_CHEMINEMENT%3C%3Ecnt_id=10134198673226762&FOLDER%3C%3Efolder_id=9852723696500940&bmUID=1173917904204&bmLocale=en Louvre]
* [http://www.hermitagemuseum.org/html_En/03/hm3_3_3_1c.html Hermitage Museum]
* [http://www.metmuseum.org/TOAH/hd/neoc_1/hod_05.46.htm Metropolitan Museum of Art]
* [http://gallery.sjsu.edu/paris/the_academy/canova.htm Historical background]

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