#psycheandcupid

Antonio Casanova's sculpture Psyche Revived by Cupid's Kiss, first commissioned in 1787 by Colonel John Campbell is a masterpiece of Neoclassical sculpture, but shows the mythological lovers at a moment of great emotion, characteristic of the emerging movement of Romanticism. It represents the god Cupid in the height of love and tenderness, immediately after awakening the lifeless Psyche with a kiss.....on display at Le Louvre, Paris

~Virginia Wolf~

someone take me back to paris so i can see my wife again !!!!

Venus, had a jealous streak . She was so jealous of Psyche that she sent Cupid to shoot her(psyche) with an arrow and that of a hideous monster. So she would fall in love with an ugly monster. Cupid, found her,Psyche, to be so beautiful and accidentally stuck himself with a gold arrow. After he of course shot her. Oops. So he came to her and said not to look at him. But she didn’t listen well and looked at him. Cupid was mad. And so he took off. Psyche then went looking for him. And begged Venus to let her see him. She was given some tasks to do. Which she does them all and is allowed to become a goddess and be with Cupid her husband. Little did she know Cupid was helping her all along. Now this is just a watered down version there are many. From the Hellenistic period of Greece to Augustan period in Rome. And Cupid, Venus’s son or aphrodite’s son wasn’t always so good. 💁🏻‍♀️But then I guess also, Venus wasn’t mother in law of the year either. 🤷🏻‍♀️ Thanks for coming to my mythology lesson🧚🏻‍♀️👩🏻‍💻🕊 #venus #selkie #princesscore #psycheandcupid #gucci #dressed #styleblogger #outfit #whatiwore #fallvibes #outfitoftheday #history #mythology #dailystyle Ps new post on the blog www.Glamorouslysteph.com Dress @selkie https://www.instagram.com/p/CUu_C9_gMpP/?utm_medium=tumblr

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My favourite sculpture in The Louvre. My heart melts every time I see this. I make a pilgrimage every time I go to Paris.

Psyche was the beautiful, much sought-after mortal daughter of a Greek king. The king learned that his daughter would become the mate of a horrible monster and is told to leave his daughter on a mountaintop to avoid the destruction of his people. The king obeys and Venus becomes jealous of Psyche’s beauty, and orders her son Cupid to shoot an arrow into her that would make her fall in love with something ugly. Instead, Cupid falls in love with her. With her new life on the mountain she can only meet with her husband at night in the dark and he remains unseen. What she does not know is that Cupid is actually the one who visits her every night and he asks her to not to doubt their love simply because she cannot see his face. She begins to miss her family and requests to see her two sisters, who planted doubt into Psyche’s mind saying that her husband is an ugly monster who waits to feast on her. So one night as Cupid visited her, she shone a light onto his face and was startled that he was not ugly at all. Cupid, feeling betrayed from their trust tells her he shall no longer see her and flies away leaving her with feelings of guilt and remorse. Psyche turns to Aphrodite asking for forgiveness and she assigns her tasks to do in order to prove herself worthy and fails.  Meanwhile, Cupid comes back for her and pricks her with one of his arrows. Then he goes to Zeus and asks him to negotiate with Aphrodite causing her to allow consent. He then sends Mercury to retrieve Psyche into the heavens and presents her with a cup that makes her immortal. She awakes and sees Cupid and they fall in love, later creating a daughter named Pleasure.

HODGEPODGE OMG The first character I first fell in love with: 
Amy Rose!! She's the reason I got into Sonic The character I never expected to love as much as I do now: 
Grounder The character everyone else loves that I don’t: 
not sure honestly?? The character I love that everyone else hates: 
going from YouTube commenters.... SILVER!!! YouTube HATES him The character I used to love but don’t any longer:
 Shadow. I still like Shadow buuuut not as much The character I would totally smooch: Silver 
The character I’d want to be like: 
I wanna be like Amy The character I’d slap: 
FANG he so deserves this but I love him anyway A pairing that I love: Team Hooligan ot3
A pairing that I despise: sonails