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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 / 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

order or scenes: damaged, probably Conception of Psyche; Worship of P.; Oracle; Leave-taking of P.; P. on the mountain; P. carried by Zephyrus (beneath P.s sisters with gifts); P. dining in Amor's Palace and talking to Amor; (beneath P. resting and entering the house); P. seeing Amor; A. leaving

Artist or creator

Jacopo del Sellaio (c1441-1493) (attributed)

Date

1490 (circa)

Location

Boston (Mass.), Museum of Fine Arts (inv. 12.1049)

Associated persons

Ian Jones (Photographer (digital))

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

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