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| Keywords: Luca Giordano - Venus Punishing Psyche with a Task (?) - WGA09018.jpg Artwork Creator Luca Giordano en This painting is the last in a set of twelve in the Royal Collection depicting part of the story of Cupid and Psyche The subject of this series comes from The Metamorphoses or Golden Ass by the second-century AD writer Apuleius it is one of the stories that intersperse the main narrative of Lucius on his travels Book IV para 28 - Book VI para 24 The tale of the many travails endured by ill-matched lovers one mortal and one divine before their final happy marriage it was interpreted in the Renaissance as a Neoplatonic allegory of the progress of the soul Psyche means ˜soul ™ in Greek towards salvation through Divine Love The outcome of their union is Pleasure At this stage in the story Apuleius describes how Psyche is rebuffed by Ceres and Juno and decides to appeal to Venus herself; but Venus punishes her with the help of Care and Sorrow and then sets her a series of increasingly difficult tasks The final scene in this series probably represents the naked Venus her attendant behind her setting Psyche her third task - to obtain water from a high rock guarded by dragons In Apuleius Psyche points up to ˜the top of the steep mountain that looms over that lofty crag ™; she is helped to achieve the task by Jupiter ™s eagle Giordano gives no indication of the black spring or the vessel with which to collect the water This makes the identification of this scene difficult If this is indeed the scene depicted here then this is the final one in Luca Giordano ™s series between 1692 1702 Oil on copper size cm 58 1 68 9 Institution Royal Collection Windsor https //www royalcollection org uk/collection/search /9/collection/402964/venus-punishing-psyche-with-a-task Royal Collection object history en Acquired by George IIII and recorded in the Bedchamber at Buckingham House c 1792 credit line en Probably commissioned by Carlos II of Spain or his mother accession number WGA link 9018 http //www wga hu/art/g/giordano/psyche4 jpg http //www wga hu/html/g/giordano/psyche4 html painting mythological Italian 1651-1700 PD-old-100-1923 DEFAULTSORT Giordano Venus Punishing Psyche with a Task Paintings by Luca Giordano in the Royal Collection of the United Kingdom in Windsor Castle Cupid and Psyche12 Paintings of Venus Aphrodite Paintings of Armor and Psyche 17th-century oil paintings in the United Kingdom Female long hair in art Mythological paintings in the United Kingdom Pointing left in art 17th-century oil paintings in the United Kingdom 17th-century oil on copper paintings 17th-century mythological paintings 1690s mythological paintings 1690s paintings in the United Kingdom 1690s paintings from Italy WGA form painting WGA type mythological WGA School Italian WGA time period 1651-1700 Luca Giordano - Venus Punishing Psyche with a Task (?) - WGA09018.jpg Artwork Creator Luca Giordano en This painting is the last in a set of twelve in the Royal Collection depicting part of the story of Cupid and Psyche The subject of this series comes from The Metamorphoses or Golden Ass by the second-century AD writer Apuleius it is one of the stories that intersperse the main narrative of Lucius on his travels Book IV para 28 - Book VI para 24 The tale of the many travails endured by ill-matched lovers one mortal and one divine before their final happy marriage it was interpreted in the Renaissance as a Neoplatonic allegory of the progress of the soul Psyche means ˜soul ™ in Greek towards salvation through Divine Love The outcome of their union is Pleasure At this stage in the story Apuleius describes how Psyche is rebuffed by Ceres and Juno and decides to appeal to Venus herself; but Venus punishes her with the help of Care and Sorrow and then sets her a series of increasingly difficult tasks The final scene in this series probably represents the naked Venus her attendant behind her setting Psyche her third task - to obtain water from a high rock guarded by dragons In Apuleius Psyche points up to ˜the top of the steep mountain that looms over that lofty crag ™; she is helped to achieve the task by Jupiter ™s eagle Giordano gives no indication of the black spring or the vessel with which to collect the water This makes the identification of this scene difficult If this is indeed the scene depicted here then this is the final one in Luca Giordano ™s series between 1692 1702 Oil on copper size cm 58 1 68 9 Institution Royal Collection Windsor https //www royalcollection org uk/collection/search /9/collection/402964/venus-punishing-psyche-with-a-task Royal Collection object history en Acquired by George IIII and recorded in the Bedchamber at Buckingham House c 1792 credit line en Probably commissioned by Carlos II of Spain or his mother accession number WGA link 9018 http //www wga hu/art/g/giordano/psyche4 jpg http //www wga hu/html/g/giordano/psyche4 html painting mythological Italian 1651-1700 PD-old-100-1923 DEFAULTSORT Giordano Venus Punishing Psyche with a Task Paintings by Luca Giordano in the Royal Collection of the United Kingdom in Windsor Castle Cupid and Psyche12 Paintings of Venus Aphrodite Paintings of Armor and Psyche 17th-century oil paintings in the United Kingdom Female long hair in art Mythological paintings in the United Kingdom Pointing left in art 17th-century oil on copper paintings 17th-century mythological paintings 1690s mythological paintings 1690s paintings in the United Kingdom 1690s paintings from Italy WGA form painting WGA type mythological WGA School Italian WGA time period 1651-1700 | ||||
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