#amor and psyche

[peaceinthestorm]

Jacopo Zucchi (1541-1590, Florentine) ~ Amor and Psyche, 1589

[Source: collezionegalleriaborghese.it]

[christreginlave]

Sew-on plaque with the image of Eros and Psyche. First centuries AD Kerch (?)

[cliriq]

“Cupid and Psyche” XIX - early XX centuries

[aleheartilly]

Some nice visual reference for "The winter rose". This is the central square of the ceiling of Sala di Amore e Psiche, in Palazzo Te, Mantua (Italy). It represents the wedding of Cupid and Psyche.

[life-imitates-art-far-more]

Veloso Salgado (1864-1945) "Amor and Psyche" (1891) Located in the Museu Nacional de Arte Contemporânea do Chiado, Lisbon, Portugal

[est-ericstaylor]

Transmasculine Amor and Psyche

[hawk-queen]

Berthold is the God of fire, so when he hears that the human Roy Mustang is trying to wield the power of fire he gets upset. He asks his daughter Riza, the winged goddess of the hunt, to find him and kill him.

She does and as she watches him, she falls in love with him. When her arrow finds his heart, it doesn't kill him. In her form as a giant Hawk, she flies away with him and brings him to a beautiful mansion.

At night she joins him in his bed, but she is always gone by morning.

His sisters are worried about him and when he visits them, they ask him if he is sure that he is not haunted by a monster. So one night, when she is asleep, he takes the oil lamp to find out what's lying next to him.

He sees this beautiful naked woman with wings and an intricate tattoo on her back. Completely overwhelmed with love and desire for her, he spills the hot oil over her back, burning off parts of the tattoo and wounding her.

Appalled by what he did to her, he flees, leaving her alone and feeling abandoned and betrayed. When he realises his mistake and comes back, she is gone.

He goes all the way to her father who uses his chance and tries to get him killed by giving him ridiculous quests, but Roy refuses to die.

Riza, who is no longer under the spell by her father's sigil finally wakes up and is not amused. She seeks out hohenheim, the god of wisdom, who she begs to let Roy join the ranks of the gods.

She reveals that she is with his child, so Hohenheim grants her a philosopher's stone that turns Roy into a god himself.

They live a happy life with lots of children and none of that Greek style cheating drama.

[thatstudyblrontea]

Amore e psiche

Adolfo de Carolis (1879-1928); oil on canvas

[parlapina]

"Sic ignara Psyche sponte in Amoris incidit amorem"

Psyche revived by Cupid's kiss, a sculture by Antonio Canova (1787)

[tattooed-daises]

Amor und Psyche by Theodor Friedl (Vienna, Austria, 24.12.2022)

[heyclodia]

Cardinal, a sapphic fairytale

[luvetlux]

A n t o n i o - C a n o v a Psyché ranimée par le baiser de l'Amour 1793 Musée du Louvre, Paris

[ukdamo]

Two Poems on Cupid and Psyche

F.F. Teague

Cupid and Psyche

I light a lamp to know the truth and see… a God! I drop my knife and gape at all the gold in view, the gleaming wings. I'm Cupid's wife! The Pythia had split her lips with screams of what awaited me: A Dragon Lover! But your kiss, your touch, your moves, felt heavenly until I doubted. You must know, my sisters urged. I tremble, spill a drop of wax. You wake and groan and glare. Your anger holds me still and silent, shamed, inside our room, our baby fluttering in my womb.

**

Cupid and Psyche

When Psyche lights a lamp for truth and sees the God, she drops the knife and gapes at all the gold in view. She has one thought: I'm Cupid's wife!

The Pythia's lips had split with screams of Dragon Lover! But Psyche's fright had ebbed within her lover's arms; her lips enjoyed him night by night.

The dark had concealed a golden boy, as gentle as his mother's doves; but might, as well, a serpent's coils and forking tongue have roused to love?

The unborn wriggles in her womb as Cupid glares across the room.

[dianasultanova]

Cupid and Psyche

Antonio Canova

[mercuriicultores]

1787, Johan Tobias Sergel, Amor och Psyke