File:Luca Giordano - Psyche's Parents Offering Sacrifice to Apollo - WGA09016.jpg
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[edit]Luca Giordano: Psyche's Parents Offering Sacrifice to Apollo ( ) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Artist |
artist QS:P170,Q332494 |
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Title |
Psyche's Parents Offering Sacrifice to Apollo |
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Object type |
painting object_type QS:P31,Q3305213 |
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Description |
English: This painting is the second 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.
In Apuleius’s story the beauty of Psyche, the third daughter of a king and queen, is so great that people pay homage to her rather than the goddess Venus: ‘as she walked the streets the people crowded to adore her with garlands and flowers’. In her jealousy Venus summons Cupid, ‘that winged son of hers, that most reckless of creatures’, and commands him to arouse in her [Psyche] a burning love for an unworthy husband, ‘cursed by Fortune in rank, in estate, in condition so that Psyche would be mortified’. At this stage in the story, although praised for her beauty, no potential husband has presented himself to Psyche. Her parents, afraid that they have unwittingly incurred the anger of the gods, consult the oracle of Apollo and are told that Psyche’s future husband is no mortal lover, but a monster (‘something cruel and fierce and serpentine’), and that Psyche must be left exposed on a mountain peak, in ‘funeral wedlock ritually arrayed’. Giordano’s second painting shows Psyche’s parents sacrificing at the Temple of Apollo at Miletus before consulting the oracle (though according to Apuleius only her father made the journey). The composition is dominated by a surge upwards and to the right as figures and animals kneel before the statue, and great clouds of smoke rise from the sacrifice. |
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Date |
between 1695 and 1697 date QS:P571,+1695-00-00T00:00:00Z/8,P1319,+1695-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1697-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 |
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Medium |
oil on copper medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q753,P518,Q861259 |
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Dimensions |
height: 56.2 cm (22.1 in); width: 69.2 cm (27.2 in) dimensions QS:P2048,56.2U174728 dimensions QS:P2049,69.2U174728 |
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Collection |
institution QS:P195,Q42646 |
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Object history |
English: Acquired by George IIII and recorded in the Bedchamber at Buckingham House c.1792 |
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Notes |
English: Probably commissioned by Carlos II of Spain or his mother |
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References | Royal Collection, Windsor | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Source/Photographer |
Web Gallery of Art: Image Info about artwork reference_wga QS:P973,"http://www.wga.hu/html/g/giordano/psyche2.html" |
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- Paintings by Luca Giordano in the Royal Collection of the United Kingdom in Windsor Castle
- Mythological paintings by Luca Giordano
- Animal sacrifice in art
- Mythological paintings in the Royal Collection of the United Kingdom
- Paintings of Psyche
- Paintings of people with animals
- People standing on stairs in art
- People with fire in art
- Paintings of people with sculptures
- 17th-century oil paintings in the United Kingdom
- 1690s oil on copper paintings
- 1690s mythological paintings
- 1690s paintings in the United Kingdom
- 1690s paintings from Italy
- Images from Web Gallery of Art
- Paintings without Wikidata item
- WGA files missing P6243 property
- PD-old missing SDC copyright status
- CC-PD-Mark
- PD-old-100-expired
- PD-Art (PD-old-100-expired)
- PD-Art missing SDC copyright status
- WGA form: painting
- WGA type: mythological
- WGA School: Italian
- WGA time period: 1651-1700