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Psyche’s Third Task: Fetch water from that black river…

The River Styx Luca Giordano 1684-1686. Fresco in the Palazzo Medici-Riccardi From: The Golden Asse by Lucius Apuleius Adlington’s translation, 1566 THE FIFTH BOOKE THE TWENTY-SECOND CHAPTER The most pleasant and delectable tale of the marriage of Cupid and Psyches … Then Venus spake unto Psyches againe saying: Seest thou the toppe of yonder great…

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Psyche in the 1600s

Cupid and Psyche Orazio Gentileschi 1628-30 Oil on canvas, 137 x 160 cm The Hermitage, St. Petersburg Cupid and Psyche Sir Anthony van Dyck 1639-40 Oil on canvas, 199.4 x 191.8 cm Royal Collection, Windsor Sleeping Psyche Michelangelo Palloni ca. 1688 Fresco Wilanów Palace Museum, Warsaw Psyche Served by Invisible Spirits Luca Giordano 1692-1702 Oil…