File:Abraham Bloemaert - The Marriage of Cupid and Psyche - WGA02279.jpg
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[edit]Abraham Bloemaert: The Marriage of Cupid and Psyche | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Artist |
artist QS:P170,Q329811 |
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painting object_type QS:P31,Q3305213 |
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Genre | mythological painting | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Date |
circa 1595 date QS:P571,+1595-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902 |
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Medium |
oil on panel medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q106857709,P518,Q861259 |
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Dimensions |
height: 61.6 cm (24.2 in) ; width: 62 cm (24.4 in) dimensions QS:P2048,+61.6U174728 dimensions QS:P2049,+62.0U174728 |
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Collection |
institution QS:P195,Q42646 |
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Accession number |
RCIN 407282 (Royal Collection) |
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Source/Photographer |
Web Gallery of Art: Image Info about artwork reference_wga QS:P973,"http://www.wga.hu/html/b/bloemaer/abraham/marriage.html" |
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JPEG file comment | BLOEMAERT, Abraham
(b. 1566, Gorinchem, d. 1651, Utrecht) The Marriage of Cupid and Psyche c. 1595 Oil on panel, diameter: 61,6 cm Royal Collection, Windsor The subject marks the climax of the story of Cupid and Psyche as recounted by Apuleius in The Golden Ass (Books 4-6). The theme became popular with artists during the Renaissance and was also frequently depicted in the seventeenth century. The marriage of Cupid and Psyche took place in heaven on Mount Olympus after Psyche had endeavoured in vain to win back Cupid's love on earth by a series of ordeals set by Venus. The chief protagonists in this banquet of the gods are seated facing the viewer in the centre of the composition. Venus and Mars embrace with Vulcan to the left and Bacchus to the right. The immediate foreground is dominated by Neptune and Mercury, who conveyed Psyche to heaven in order for her to be reunited with Cupid. Jupiter and Juno are set further back in the picture space on the far right. Apollo, holding a lyre, can be faintly discerned top left, while Fame accompanied by putti blows a fanfare. The story of Cupid and Psyche was not always depicted simply as a narrative, but sometimes in broad philosophical terms as an allegory of carnal and spiritual love. The composition of the painting is inspired by a large engraving of the Marriage of Cupid and Psyche by Hendrik Goltzius, made after a drawing of 1587 by Bartholomeus Spranger. The rectangular format of the engraving was favoured by Bloemaert for another version of the subject now at Aschaffenburg, Bavaria. This compositional dependency on Spranger's work is echoed in the similarity of style, which in turn suggests an early date of about 1595 for the painting. Bloemaert here provides a perfect demonstration of Mannerism in the complicated twisting poses, the severe foreshortening, the restless movement, and the dramatic gesticulation. These stylistic tendencies are given an added visual complexity by the circular format that was also often used by Goltzius for his prints of mythological subjects. The painting formed part of a large group of pictures sold by the dealer William Frizell to Charles II in 1660. Of these, eleven were claimed by Frizell to have been in the collections of Rudolf II in Prague and Queen Christina of Sweden, including the present picture. However, no such painting seems to have been listed in the inventories of the collections of either of these famous patrons of the arts and so Frizell's claim remains unconfirmed. <P> <TABLE ALIGN=LEFT CELLPADDING=5 BORDER=1 WIDTH=320 BGCOLOR="#99CCCC"> <TR VALIGN=MIDDLE><TD><IMG SRC="/support/gif/listen.gif" BORDER=0 VALIGN=MIDDLE> Suggested listening (streaming mp3, 4 minutes):<BR><A HREF="#" onClick="w=window.open ('/music1/17_cent/gasparini_cupid.html', 'newWin', 'scrollbars=yes,status=no,dependent=yes,screenX=0,screenY=0,width=350,height=350');w.opener=this;w.focus();return true"><B>Francesco Gasparini: The Meddlesome Cupid, aria</B></A> </TD></TR></TABLE>
--- Keywords: -------------- Author: BLOEMAERT, Abraham Title: The Marriage of Cupid and Psyche Time-line: 1601-1650 School: Dutch Form: painting Type: mythological |
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File change date and time | 23:23, 7 December 2011 |
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- Mythological paintings by Abraham Bloemaert
- Paintings in the Royal Collection of the United Kingdom in Windsor Castle
- Paintings of mythological characters in nature
- Mythological paintings in the Royal Collection of the United Kingdom
- Paintings of Cupid and Psyche
- Paintings of people in nature
- Pointing in art
- Tondo
- Wedding of Cupid and Psyche in art
- 1590s mythological paintings
- 1590s paintings in the United Kingdom
- 1595 paintings
- Images from Web Gallery of Art
- Artworks with Wikidata item
- Artworks with accession number from Wikidata
- Artworks with known accession number
- Artworks digital representation of 2D work
- 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: Dutch
- WGA time period: 1601-1650