Antonio Canova came into the world on All Saints’ Day in 1757 in Possagno, a town near Treviso. He did not have a very easy childhood but became one of the greatest sculptors ever … We present: Cupid and Psyche by Antonio CanovaThis beautiful sculptural group was made between 1787 and 1793 and is kept…

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Antonio Canova came into the world on All Saints’ Day in 1757 in Possagno, a town near Treviso. He did not have a very easy childhood but became one of the greatest sculptors ever …

We present: Cupid and Psyche by Antonio Canova
This beautiful sculptural group was made between 1787 and 1793 and is kept at the Louvre Museum in Paris.

A second copy, made by Canova, is on display at the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg in Russia

This work is a masterpiece in the search for balance, in fact the two figures are arranged diagonally and diverging from each other.
In fact, the pyramid arrangement of the two bodies is balanced by a specular triangular shape consisting of the open wings of Love


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