Jacopo del Sellaio (c1441-1493) - 15th century (late) | The Warburg Institute Iconographic Database

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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 / Birth of Psyche (lib. IV, 28)

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 approaches Amor's house (lib. V, 1)

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 discovers the true identity of Amor (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

Companion piece to Amsterdam, Coll. Proehl, probably inspired by the earlier panels (Berlin); scenes as there, but also birth of Psyche; Leave-taking instead of P. walking up the mountain; Amor admonishing Psyche (illogically in the garden); no gifts; P. seeing who Amor is instead of touching arrow

Artist or creator

Jacopo del Sellaio (c1441-1493)

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

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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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