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| Keywords: Luca Giordano - Psyche's Parents Offering Sacrifice to Apollo - WGA09016.jpg Artwork Creator Luca Giordano en 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 between 1695 1697 Oil on copper size cm 56 2 69 2 Institution Royal Collection Windsor https //www royalcollection org uk/collection/search /9/collection/402963/psyches-parents-offering-sacrifice-to-apollo Royal Collection Windsor object history en Acquired by George IIII and recorded in the Bedchamber at Buckingham House c 1792 credit line en Probably commissioned by Carlos II of Spain or his mother accession number WGA link 9016 http //www wga hu/art/g/giordano/psyche2 jpg http //www wga hu/html/g/giordano/psyche2 html painting mythological Italian 1651-1700 PD-old-100-1923 DEFAULTSORT Giordano Psyche's Parents Offering Sacrifice to Apollo Paintings by Luca Giordano in the Royal Collection of the United Kingdom in Windsor Castle Cupid and Psyche2 Animal sacrifice in art Mythological paintings in the United Kingdom Paintings of Amor and Psyche Paintings of humans with animals People standing on stairs in art People with fire in art People with sculptures in art 17th-century oil paintings in the United Kingdom 17th-century oil on copper paintings 17th-century mythological paintings 1690s paintings in the United Kingdom 1690s paintings from Italy WGA form painting WGA type mythological WGA School Italian WGA time period 1651-1700 | ||||
