The tale of Cupid and Psyche : an illustrated history / Sonia Cavicchioli.

Translated from the Italian by Susan Scott, c2002.

Introduction. 1 Apuleius's tale. 2 Sources from classical antiquity. 3 Knowledge and interpretation of the story of Psyche from late antiquity to the fifteenth century. 4 Ut Pictura Poesis: the great renaissance painting cycles. 5 The fable between apologue and idyll. 6 Psyche in baroque and neoclassical art. 7 The nineteenth century: innovation and tradition

'The passionate love story of a god and an exquisitely beautiful mortal woman, the myth of Cupid and Psyche has fascinated Western culture since the Middle Ages. First appearing as a long aside in Apuleius's The Golden Ass in the second century A.D., this romance has inspired countless works of art in an astonishingly wide range of media. Gathered here is a selection of these numerous works, from monumental fresco cycles, to easel paintings and wedding chests, from miniatures, tapestries, and stained glass windows, to marble and porcelain sculpture. Many are considered masterpieces of European art.'

Hardcover