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' Cupid and Psyche ' was the title of a ballet choreographed by Frederick Ashton with music by Lord Berners and decor by Sir Francis Rose, first performed by the Sadler's Wells Ballet ( now Royal Ballet ) on 27 April 1939, with Frank Staff as Cupid, Julia Farron as Psyche, Michael Somes as Pan and June Brae as Venus.
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There, he trained and influenced Brussels artists like François-Joseph Navez and Ignace Brice, painted Cupid and Psyche and quietly lived the remainder of his life with his wife ( whom he had remarried ).
File: Cupid and psyche. jpg | Cupid and Psyche ( 1817 ), Cleveland Museum of Art
* Cupid and Psyche, a myth
and fairy tales appear, now and again, in written literature throughout literate cultures, as in The Golden Ass, which includes Cupid and Psyche ( Roman, 100 – 200 AD ), or the Panchatantra ( India 3rd century BCE ), but it is unknown to what extent these reflect the actual folk tales even of their own time.
Within a short time he changed his mind and soon acquired two Rodin marbles, Orpheus and Cupid and Psyche, for his Chicago mansion, the first two of Rodin's works known to have been sold to an American collector.
For the Beauvais tapestry workshops he first designed a series of Fêtes italiennes (" Italian festivals ") in 1736, which proved to be very successful and often rewoven over the years, and then, commissioned in 1737, a suite of the story of Cupid and Psyche.
First then does Ovid begin telling the story describing Myrrha, her father and their relationship, which Doll compares to the mating of Cupid and Psyche: here the lovemaking occurs in complete darkness and only the initiator ( Cupid ) knows the identity of the other as well.
File: WLA vanda Claude Michel Cupid and Psyche. jpg | Claude Michel ( Clodion )-Cupid and Psyche, in Terracotta
By the 1870s the Marlboroughs were in severe financial trouble, and in 1875 the 7th Duke sold the " Marriage of Cupid and Psyche ", together with the famed Marlborough gems, at auction for £ 10, 000.
In 1866 Mrs Cassavetti commissioned Burne-Jones to paint her daughter, Maria Zambaco, in Cupid finding Psyche, an introduction which led to their tragic affair.
Psyche, having lost Cupid, hunted through the world for him, and was set tasks by Venus, including a descent into the underworld.
The project entailed twenty-two paintings illustrating The Story of Cupid and Psyche ( 1640 – 41 ).
Efforts to continue with the project continued slowly, and a year later, in May 1641, all plans for The Story of Cupid and Psyche series were disrupted, with the death of diplomat Scaglia.
Another version of the Story of Cupid and Psyche adorned the ceilings of Jordaens ' house in Antwerp.
Included in the series were Psyche's Father Questions the Oracle in the Temple of Apollo, The Love of Cupid and Psyche, The Curiosity of Psyche, Cupid's Flight, Psyche Received by the Gods and two putti pieces.
It is a retelling of the Greek myth of Cupid and Psyche, which had haunted Lewis all his life, and which is itself based on a chapter of The Golden Ass of Apuleius.
Ideal subjects were very rarely attempted by Hoppner, though a " Sleeping Venus ," " Belisarius ," " Jupiter and Io ," a " Bacchante " and " Cupid and Psyche " are mentioned among his works.
* Cupid & Psyche 85-Scritti Politti ( 1985 )
Hedone is also the Greek name of Voluptas, the daughter of the Greek gods Eros ( Cupid ) and Psyche.
In 1600, he worked on The Seven Wise Masters, Fortune's Tennis, Cupid and Psyche, and Fair Constance of Rome.
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In particular Francis I of France was presented with Bronzino's Venus, Cupid, Folly and Time.
It was a historically minded culture where artists ’ representations of Cupid and the Madonna, of Hercules and St. Peter could exist side-by-side .”
Because Owen was the only member of the television show's trio to appear in the production, it was retitled Compo Plays Cupid.
The boy was identified, however, as Cupid in glosses, a syncresis that had already resulted in the figure of Harpocratic Cupid ( illustration, right ).
Before relating the story, it is stated that Cupid played no role in the events and was not to blame for Myrrha's incestuous love for her father, Cinyras.
The figure with outstretched wings on the tang is a Lasa, an Etruscan form of Lar who was a facilitator of love like the Erotes or Cupid.
The other two are covers – " Courageous Cat " theme from the original Courageous Cat Cartoon series, and a second attempt at " Don't Mess With Cupid ," a song written by Steve Cropper and Eddie Floyd for Otis Redding and first recorded independently for what was later to become the Mercer Street / Blue Rock Sessions.
From 1828 there was a steamboat service, operated by Thomas Grahame's boat Cupid.
Palmerston was considered by some of his contemporaries to be a womaniser ; The Times named him Lord Cupid ( on account of his youthful looks ), and he was cited, at the age of 79, as co-respondent in an 1863 divorce case, although it emerged that the case was nothing more than an attempted blackmail.
Her first acting appearance was as Cupid at age five in a church theatrical performance in Lindsay, Ontario.
" It was a marriage between Psyche and Cupid " Catherine wrote to the Prince of Ligne.
She was in four episodes of the ABC dramedy Cupid.
Urban was seen on the internationally syndicated American TV series Hercules: The Legendary Journeys and on its spin-off Xena: Warrior Princess, in which he played the recurring roles of both Cupid and Julius Caesar from 1996 to 2001.
In October 1970, Bill Yendrek, was replaced by guitarist / songwriter Bill " Cupid " Bartolin.
The " Class Mix " of " Human " was used as the theme music to the short-lived American TV series Cupid as well as featuring in the soundtrack to Brenda Blethyn movie " Saving Grace ".
At Pratolino, in spite of the dryness of the site, there was a Grotto of Cupid ( surviving ), with water tricks for the unwary visitor.
Rita Hayworth was featured in Blondie on a Budget ; Glenn Ford in Blondie Plays Cupid, Larry Parks and Janet Blair in Blondie Goes to College, Shemp Howard in Blondie Knows Best and Adele Jergens in Blondie's Anniversary.
The convention was beginning to die out with Siebel, the ingenuous youth in Charles Gounod's Faust ( 1859 ) and the gypsy boy Beppe in Mascagni's L ' Amico Fritz, so that Offenbach gave the role of Cupid to a real boy in Orphée aux Enfers.
Bouguereau was inspired by the story of Cupid and Psyche several times:
His final book of poetry was Boss Cupid ( 2000 ).
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He decorated a villa in Leipzig with the story of Cupid and Psyche, and further justified his title of poet-painter with designs from the Niebelungenlied and Tasso's Gerusalemme for the walls of the castle of Hohenschwangau in Bavarian Tirol.
The poem's MS title was The Book of Cupid, God of Love.
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