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Psyche was a stunning princess that many people looked at but eventually fell in love with someone else. Venus was jealous of Psyche’s beauty, and sent her son, Cupid, to make Psyche fall in love with the most ugly creature alive. However, when Cupid goes to fulfill his mother’s orders, he falls in love with Psyche. Still, Psyche had found no one, so her father went to Apollo for guidance. Apollo knew about the love that Cupid felt for Psyche, so he told her father to take her to a rocky hill and leave her alone. Here her future husband was come and take her to be his wife. Psyche waited on the top of the hilltop for days, showered with delicious food, royalty, and voices of her husband. One day, Psyche asks the voice if her sisters can

The Story of Cupid and Psyche first appeared in the book Metamorphoses by Apuleius, written between 124-170 AD. The story deals with many themes prevalent in tales from classical antiquity, including love, challenging trials, and interference from the gods. It tells the tale of a love story between a mortal woman and a god. Psyche is the youngest daughter of an unnamed king and queen, renowned for her beauty, while Cupid (also known as Eros in Roman mythology) is the son of the goddess Venus, and a minor god of love. Of the two, Cupid is more recognisable in modern times, often found with his classic attributes of small feathered wings and a bow and arrow. In the Renaissance, however, the two lovers are often found together in art, and their story was particularly popular for its allegorical associations. Italian writer Giovanni Boccaccio drew parallels between Psyche and Cupid’s marriage at the end of the story and union of the human soul and God (Most, 2010, p.56). Furthermore, Psyche’s name is derived from the Greek word for ‘soul’. In her union with Cupid, Psyche transitions from mortality, to one of the immortal divine, much like how many followers of Christianity in the Renaissance - particularly in Italy - believed that if their souls would live for eternity with God in Paradise. Moreover, Hall discusses Apuleius’ tale as an allegory for the union between the Soul and Desire (Eros), with the creation of Pleasure (their child) as a result (1974, pg.88)

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The story of Cupid and Psyche centers on the powers of true love- “So all came to a most happy end. Love and Soul ( for that is what Psyche means) had sought and, after sore trials, found each other; and that union could never be broken” (132). Psyche loved her unseen husband, but on condition of their marriage, Cupid (though she did not know his true name) made Psyche swear to never see him in the light, where his identity could be revealed. Psyche was overcome with love for her husband, and- prompted by her conniving sisters- revealed his face with a candlestick. Her curiosity and recklessness sent her beloved away to where she could not

As both of the titles of the sculptures represent, the man is David in the Bible. During both the time of the Renaissance and the time of Baroque, people were very religious. The two show the heroism and braveness of the personality of David who had the help of God to defeat a giant who was much larger than himself. Despite a similar purpose behind them, the style that the two artists used created different feelings between the sculptures.

Cupid had then slipped up and ended up wounding himself with his own arrow, causeing him to fall for Psyche. Cursed by Venus, Psyche was also in dismay about the flattery and the glory she had begot by her fathamous beauty. Which left her loved by no man! This puts Psyche in a state of despair, and causes her to resemble her beauty.

The sculpture is called “O Pensador” (The Thinker) and surely has much resemblance to the French Auguste Rodin’s cognate “Le Penseur”,

Love and fate are a very common theme in Greek Mythology. In part two chapter one of “Mythology”, a book by Edith Hamilton, tells various stories of love and adventure. One of these stories is the a love story with a bit of a twist. This story shows that love can be blind and even when you think you know someone they could just be hiding their true selves. In the story of Cupid and Psyche there was a king had three daughters.

Christo had once said “The work of art is a scream of freedom.” Christo is a sculptor who had worked with his wife until her death in 2009. Christo had financed all of his projects himself. He had raised money by selling small paintings he had created. But his main works of art were giant wrappings of different things. His favorite wrappings were buildings or places seen everday by people. By wrapping these places he was giving them a new identity. Christo has undertaken many projects. One of the most well known was of the wrapping of the Reichstag in Berlin. They used thick woven polypropylene fabric with an aluminum surface which was 1,076,390 sq feet.

Love in Greek mythology is frequently one sided which usually leads to tragedy and abandonment. It is the one feeling that personally all, as humans and gods, have in common. There are many types of love that suddenly emerge in myths. For example, the story of Psyche and Cupid shows the power of pure love. When Cupid first saw Psyche, he instantly fell in love with her beauty and wanted to marry her. Somehow her beauty was admired by tons but none of it leads to the love of marriage. However, Cupid did fully appreciate Psyche’s beauty through it all.

Sculpture ideas of the self, ideas of the soul. The case study of Bernini is important at looking at the work of an artist. The idea that art is a way of expressing the self as external expression of what is interior. For us in this digital age the idea of self expression and the idea of expressing our feelings is so persuasive that we really don 't think of it as revolutionary. Yet, for a very long time art especially the idea of expressing the interim of the artist was not a common idea.  Art was about to commemorate something, make a record or to preserve something for posterity. This vehicle of self-expression, the work of Bernini the idea as the artwork as an expression of the artist. Artist change the way we look at art and the world. Bernini 's The Ecstasy of St. Theresa, by far is most famous sculpture carved from marble often called the most pornographic art piece ever made. What Bernini does is take a religious experience, religious rapture St. Theresa she talks about the experience of the Holy Spirit and Bernardini turns it into a physical experience. Bernini of a sculpture in general does not only sculpture people who are standing still as a statue, he sculptures

Cupid and Psyche has been evaluated as being an unnerving and awkward version of the myth. David’s painting depicts a vulgar and adolescent Cupid as he is sneaking away just before sunrise. Traditionally, the god of love would be presented as an idealized and noble youth; however, in this painting David chose to show a ruddy juvenile who sneers at the observer as if to display his conquest. Cupid lacks the elegance and beautiful youthfulness, usually attributed to the gods in art; in fact, David was known for the virtuous and perfected male form that dominates most of his previous works. The male form demonstrated by Cupid “was seen to be completely at odds with the standards David and his circle had long employed for depicting young male gods.” (Thompson).

There are many different aspects of sculpture, in terms of the materials and forms that artists used to express the subjects they wished to present. Sculptures are created in a space that can be viewed from different angles – specifically three direct angles – the side, the front and the back. This is what is known as three-dimensional space, and also know as sculpture in the round. There are two sculptures (three-dimensional) works that are excellent choices for discussion, comparison, and contrasting. These two are Donnatelo’s David and Apoxyomenos (the Scraper). The latter was a bronze statue copied from a Roman statue by Lysippos of 330 B.C.E., 6' 9" high (www.khanacademy.org).

The dance was a personification of the haunting charm of the sculptures, all the while capturing the dynamism of human emotions. The sculptures, in themselves, are already expressive. However, being in the production added more meaning to them because they became part of something more – a bigger picture. They became part of a very rich storyline.

My selected Art is a sculpture titled “Psyche Revived by Cupid’s kiss”. This piece was created by Antonio Canova who was an Italian sculptor, draftsman, painter and architect. I selected this piece because in a general sense most people are familiar with the character Cupid. I figured it would be pleasurable to learn more about this character. My first initial reaction after reviewing this work was that cupid was not actually looking for love when he found Psyche but, he found it. This work allowed me to see that people were deceptive back in neoclassical period as some are today. The lesson that I see this work might be trying to convey is that if you try to deceive someone it may end up bringing that person closer to you in a way you wouldn’t expect. For example, Venus was trying to drive away Psyche due to her beauty. Venus was jealous of her beauty so she tried to set her up for danger and ended up driving her into the arms of her very own son who she later got married to.