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Psyche
Lucius Apuleius
The Birth of VenusBotticelli1485-6
Luca GiordanoPsyche’s Parents Offering Sacrifice to Apollo1692-1702
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The virgin is destined for the bride of no mortal lover. Her future husband awaits her on the top of the mountain. He is a monster whom neither gods nor men can resist.
The Abduction of PsychePierre-Paul Prud'hon1808
The Enchanted CastleClaude Lorrain1664
Psyche Opening the Door into Cupid's Garden John William WaterhousePainting date: 1904Medium: Oil on canvasSize: 109 x 71 cmLocation: Harris Museum and Art Gallery, Preston, England
Cupid and PsycheJacques Louis David, (French, 1748-1825) Cupid and Psyche, 1817Oil on canvas, Unframed: 184.2 cm x 241.6 cmThe Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.A.
ErotikR. Wan2000
Why should you wish to behold me?…If you saw me, perhaps you would fear me, perhaps adore me, but all I ask of you is to love me. I would rather you would love me as an equal than adore me as a god."
Psyche Showing Her Sisters Her GiftsJean-Honore Fragonard 1753
Call to mind the Pythian oracle that declared you destined to marry a direful and tremendous monster. …If it is, hesitate not to cut off the monster's head, and thereby recover your liberty.
Psyche Surpend L’Amour endormiLouis Jean Francois LaGrenee, called L'Aine1768
Cupid Fleeing from PsycheBERNARDO DADDI16th Century
I inflict no other punishment on you than to leave you for ever. Love cannot dwell with suspicion.
Juno Sends Psyche AwayBernado Daddi16th Century
The Labors of PsycheJohn Roddamn Spencer Stanhope1873
You are so ill favored and disagreeable that the only way you can merit your lover must be by dint of industry and diligence. I will make trial of your housewifery.
Psyche Offering Venus the Water of StyxRaphael1517
Psyche Leaves for the UnderworldMaster of the Di15th Century
Psyche Obtaining the Elixir of Beauty Charles-Joseph Natoire1735
Psyche Opening the Golden BoxJohn William WaterhousePainting date: 1904Medium: Oil on canvasSize: 109 x 71 cmLocation: Harris Museum and Art Gallery, Preston, England
Psyche and Eros Series Studies I Alexander Sutulov1992
Psyche Revived by Cupid’s KissCanova1787
Tout L’Olympe en RumeurEngraving after RaphaelLate 19th Century
L'enlèvement de PsychéWilliam Bouguereau
Cupid and Psyche Ascending to OlympusTracy Leestum2007
Cupid and PsycheSculpture2nd Century
The Awakening of PsycheGuillaume SeignacLate 19th Century