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Original fileA red chalk drawing depicting a gathering of Olympian deities seated amongst clouds. On the left, a standing Venus presents the winged child Cupid to a pensive Jupiter, while other gods including a helmeted Minerva and Diana with a crescent moon look on. The composition is a preparatory study for the fresco cycle in the Loggia di Psiche at the Villa Farnesina.
This scene, drawn from Apuleius's 'The Golden Ass', reflects the High Renaissance Neoplatonic fascination with the myth of Cupid and Psyche as an allegory for the soul's journey toward divine love and immortality.
Apuleius, The Golden Ass
The primary literary source for the narrative of Cupid and Psyche depicted in this composition.
Marsilio Ficino
Ficino's Neoplatonic philosophy informed the 16th-century interpretation of this myth as the ascent of the human soul (Psyche).
Object
Oil on panel
mythological
Digital Source
Wikimedia Commons · Public domain
https://collectiononline.fondationcustodia.fr/bronnen/drawings/?fq%5B%5D=search_s_category:%22Drawing%22&fq%5B%5D=search_s_artistfilter:%22Sanzio,%20Raffaello%22&mode=gallery&view=horizontal
4431 × 4023 px
Linked Data
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