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Jacopo Zucchi - Psyche discovers Amor
Rome, Borghese Gallery Florence, around 1542 – Rome 1596 Oil on canvas, cm 173 x130

Bertel Thorvaldsen - Cupid revives Psyche
Copenhagen, Thorvaldsens Museum Copenhagen 1770-1844 Marble, cm 57,5 x 90,5

Winged Psyche
Rome, Capitoline Museums, Palazzo Nuovo Marble, cm 149 II cen. a.C.

Simon Vouet (copy after ) - Psyche discovers Amor
Lione, Musée des Beaux-Arts Oil on canvas, cm 111,8 x 164,4

Josiah Wedgwood (or Wedgwood & Byerley) - Medallion of Psyche
Cambridge, The Fitzwilliam Museum Burslem 1730 – Stoke- on Trent 1795 Porcelain Jasper, diam. cm 4,8

Giovannni Cappelli - The abandoned Psyche
Modena, Gallery Museum and Medagliere Estense Modena 1814-1885 White marble of Carrara, cm 81 x 33 x 42

Museo Nazionale di Castel Sant'AngeloThe tale of Cupid and PsycheMarch 16, 2012 - June 10, 2012

The tale of Cupid and Psyche

March 16, 2012 - June 10, 2012

Modern Art (from the XV to the XIX century)

The tale of Cupid and Psyche: from the origin of the myth to Antonio Canova.

The exhibition, in a hall of Castel Sant'Angelo, hinges on the frieze painted by Perin del Vaga for Pope Paul III Farnese which depicts the story of Psyche. The exhibition illustrates the various interpretations of the myth, so complex that it offers several layers of reading, from antiquity to Neoclassicism of which Antonio Canova creates sublime works, finaly passing through the great cycles of the Renaissance from Raphael to Giulio Romano, from Perin del Vaga to Polidoro of Caravaggio.

OPENING HOURS
Tuesday -Sunday 9.00 AM – 7.30 PM

CLOSED
Monday

CLOSED ON HOLIDAY
25/12; 01/01

ADMISSION
Adults € 10,00 (5,00+5,00)

VENUE

Museo Nazionale di Castel Sant'Angelo
Lungotevere Castello, 50 00186 Roma
telefono: 06 681 9111
sito: http://www.castelsantangelo.beniculturali.it

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