Lesley brings up the question of other variants of the Beauty and the Beast theme. Davide says:
The story of Cupid and Psyche inspired also the Italian sculptor Antonio Canova (1757-1822). He represented the moment in which Cupid with a kiss awakened Psyche. There are three versions of this sculpture. Two are in display at The Louvre and another version at The Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg. When last June I visited the Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC, I saw a cast of this statue.
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| Cast of Canova's Cupid and Psyche, Metropolitan Museum |
Two notable 20th century ones are the quite remarkable C.S. Lewis novel Till We Have Faces, a re-telling of the Cupid and Psyche story from an unexpected point of view, and Cocteau's La Belle et la Bete-- surreal and mannered in ways that Apuleius would have appreciated. Black and white film has seldom been as luminous.
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The story of Cupid and Psyche inspired also the Italian sculptor Antonio Canova (1757-1822). He represented the moment in which Cupid with a kiss awakened Psyche. There are three versions of this sculpture. Two are in display at The Louvre and another version at The Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg. When last June I visited the Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC, I saw a cast of this statue
Gratias Magistra!!
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