Sculpture "Amor and Psyche" (1793) by Antonio Canova, reduction in art marble

Sculpture "Amor and Psyche" (1793), reduction in art marble

Amor leans tenderly over psyche and shone with his wings the death -like sleep, in which psyche had fallen due to a cunning of the jealous Aphrodite. Blessed, his lover gives his mouth to the kiss.

The great love between the god and the beautiful princess moved even the Olympian gods: Zeus granted Psyche immortality so that they could become a symbol of eternal love, one that would outlast all the storms of time.
Original: Marble sculpture, 155 x 168 cm. Musée du Louvre, Paris.

Reduction. Format 37 x 20 x 39 cm. Edition as a museum replica, hand-cast in white, polymer-bonded artificial marble.

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Antonio Canova, born in 1757 in Possagno near Bassano, was considered the greatest sculptural genius since Michelangelo. At the tender age of 15, he was already working in his own sculpture workshop for the Italian aristocracy. Success remained with him throughout his life until his death in Venice in 1822. Canova became the leading and most admired representative of Italian Neoclassicism across Europe. The Getty Museum in Malibu, California, offered around 10 million euros for Canova's "Three Graces." However, it was thanks to the persistent intervention of the British government and ultimately the generosity of art collectors and patrons J. Paul Getty and Baron Hans von Thyssen-Bornemisza that this unique gem of European sculpture remained in the United Kingdom.

Style (s): classicism

Edition / Print run: Replica

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