Iconography
GODS AND MYTHS
Amor / Myths / Amor and Psyche / Cycles / -1490 - Jacopo del Sellaio, Cassoni (Cambridge, Amsterdam, Boston)
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)
Further details
central section: scenes: men (and Amor) come to worship Psyche (cut off at the left), Psyche's parents return form the oracle; they take leave from Psyche; Psyche on the mountain' Psyche carried by Zephyrus; Psyche's sisters return with gifts
Artist or creator
Date
15th century (late)
Location
Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum (inv. M.75)
Associated persons
Ian Jones (Photographer (digital))
Notes on photograph
Bibliographic Citation
J. W. Goodison; G. H. Robertson, Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge, Catalogue of Paintings, II, Cambridge 1978, pp. 153-156, plate 2; Luisa Vertova, Cupid and Psyche in Renaissance Painting before Raphael, Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institute 42 (1979), pp. 104-121
Rights and Permissions
This material is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial 3.0 Unported License
Acknowledgements
Record created with the generous support of the Dean’s Development Fund, School of Advanced Study’
Contact
For comments or queries, please contact photographic.collect@sas.ac.uk
IIIF manifest for this object