Canova's Psyche Revived by Cupid's Kiss
1793 · Work
Cupid lands on a rock and gathers the unconscious Psyche into an embrace of impossible marble tenderness — wings, drapery and interlocking arms cut from a single unforgiving block. Neoclassicism has no more loved object, and the Louvre no more photographed kiss.
On these timelines: Painting & Sculpture, Arts and Thoughts, Master, Italy (post-476 CE)
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