1.0Gardens of Russian Museumhttps://igardens.ru/enИрина Раскинаhttps://igardens.ru/en/author/igardens/rich600338<blockquote class="wp-embedded-content"><a href="https://igardens.ru/en/cupid_and_psyche/">SCULPTURE GROUP “Cupid and Psyche”</a></blockquote>
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</script><iframe sandbox="allow-scripts" security="restricted" src="https://igardens.ru/en/cupid_and_psyche/embed/" width="600" height="338" title="“SCULPTURE GROUP “Cupid and Psyche”” — Gardens of Russian Museum" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" class="wp-embedded-content"></iframe>https://igardens.ru/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Амур-и-Психея-.jpg1280853Late 17th century, marble. It was acquired for the Summer Garden in Rome in 1719 by Y. Kologrivov and was originally located in the Grotto pavilion. “Cupid and Psyche” is one of the most artistically interesting works in the sculpture collection of the Summer Garden. The plot for it was a poetic legend about the love of the son of the goddess Venus, Cupid, for the beautiful girl Psyche. The plot is taken from the work “Metamorphoses” by the ancient Roman author Apuleius (II century AD). In the presentation of Apuleius, Psyche was so beautiful that she aroused the jealousy of the goddess of beauty Venus, and she sent her son Cupid to her to inflict a wound on Psyche. But when Cupid saw such […]