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GODS AND MYTHS
Amor / Myths / Amor and Psyche / Cycles / -1490 - Jacopo del Sellaio, Cassoni (Cambridge, Amsterdam, Boston)
Amor / Myths / Amor and Psyche / Individual scenes / Amor reproaches Psyche from a Cypress tree (lib. V, 24)
Amor / Myths / Amor and Psyche / Individual scenes / Psyche collapses at Amor's departure (lib. V, 25)
Amor / Myths / Amor and Psyche / Individual scenes / Psyche tries to drown herself and is comforted by Pan (lib. V, 25)
Amor / Myths / Amor and Psyche / Individual scenes / Psyche asks Ceres for mercy and is turned away (lib. VI, 2-3)
Amor / Myths / Amor and Psyche / Individual scenes / Psyche asks Juno for mercy and is turned away (lib. VI, 4-5)
Further details
Companion piece of Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum; scenes: Amor reproaches Psyche; P. collapses' P. tries to drown herself and is comforted by Pan; P. turned away by Ceres and Juno' P. apprehended by Consuetudo; P. scourged (above: Amor before Jupiter); wedding
Artist or creator
Date
15th century (late)
Location
Associated persons
Ian Jones (Photographer (digital))
Notes on photograph
Bibliographic Citation
Licia Collobi Ragghianti, Lorenzo il Magnifico e le Arti, Florence 1949, sala IX, no. 12; Luisa Vertova, Cupid and Psyche in Renaissance Painting before Raphael, Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institute 42 (1979), pp. 104-121
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Record created with the generous support of the Dean’s Development Fund, School of Advanced Study’
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