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GODS AND MYTHS

Amor / Myths / Amor and Psyche / Cycles / Cassone (Berlin)
Amor / Myths / Amor and Psyche / Individual scenes / Psyche is worshipped for her beauty instead of Venus (lib. IV, 28-29)
Amor / Myths / Amor and Psyche / Individual scenes / Psyche's father consults the oracle (lib. IV, 32-33)
Amor / Myths / Amor and Psyche / Individual scenes / Psyche brought to the mountain to be espoused to a monster (lib. IV, 34)
Amor / Myths / Amor and Psyche / Individual scenes / Scenes that do not go back to Apuleius / Union of Apollo and Entelechia (in Boccaccio, Genealogia Deorum, V, 22, 1, Psyche's parents)

Further details

left half, showing the following scenes: Conception of Psyche, P. worshipped; P.'s father consulting the oracle; P. brought to the mountain

Artist or creator

Florentine

Date

1448 (circa)

Location

Berlin, Gemäldegalerie (cat. 1931, no. 1823)

Associated persons

Ian Jones (Photographer (digital))

Notes on photograph

Bibliographic Citation

Paul Schubring, Cassoni, Truhen und Truhenbilder der italienischen Frührenaissance, Supplement, Leipzig 1923, p. 4, no. 911-916; 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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Acknowledgements

Record created with the generous support of the Dean’s Development Fund, School of Advanced Study’

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