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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 / Psyche alone, mourning on the mountain (lib. IV, 35)
Amor / Myths / Amor and Psyche / Individual scenes / Psyche carried off by Zephyrus (lib. IV, 35)
Amor / Myths / Amor and Psyche / Individual scenes / Psyche rests in Amor's garden (lib. V, 1)
Amor / Myths / Amor and Psyche / Individual scenes / Psyche gives precious gifts to her sisters (lib. V, 8)
Amor / Myths / Amor and Psyche / Individual scenes / Psyche's sisters leave with her gifts (lib. V, 8-9)
Amor / Myths / Amor and Psyche / Individual scenes / Psyche's sisters persuade her that her lover is a serpent (lib. V, 17-20)
Amor / Myths / Amor and Psyche / Individual scenes / Psyche injures herself with Amor's arrow (lib. V, 23)
Amor / Myths / Amor and Psyche / Individual scenes / The wounded Amor leaves Psyche who tries to hold him back (lib. V, 24)
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

order of scenes: Conception of Psyche, P. worshipped; P.'s father consulting the oracle; P. brought to the mountain; waiting there; carried by Zephyrus; resting in the garden; entering Amor's Palace'; P. gives gifts to her sisters; (left of it): sisters leaving; P. wounds herself; Amor leaves

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

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