# The Nuptials of Cupid and Psyche [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [PALAGI, Pelagio]() - Date: 1801-1850 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 254 x 188 cm ## Commentary This painting shows that painters in Italy at this period were well able to combine their dependence on France with their own studies of Antiquity and their encounter with Mengs. The painting would be inconceivable without the transmission of ideas from France. In his own days it was recognized that Palagi had adopted some elements from famous works of Antiquity - we can see that Jupiter Verospi in the Vatican served as model, Psyche is oriented to the Venus Victrix, and Cupid derives from Raphael. <P> <TABLE ALIGN=LEFT CELLPADDING=5 BORDER=1 WIDTH=320 BGCOLOR="\#99CCCC"> <TR VALIGN=MIDDLE><TD><IMG SRC="/support/gif/listen.gif" BORDER=0 VALIGN=MIDDLE> Suggested listening \(streaming mp3, 4 minutes\):<BR><A HREF="\#" onClick="w=window.open \('/music1/17\_cent/gasparini\_cupid.html', 'newWin', 'scrollbars=yes,status=no,dependent=yes,screenX=0,screenY=0,width=350,height=350'\);w.opener=this;w.focus\(\);return true"><B>Francesco Gasparini: The Meddlesome Cupid, aria</B></A> </TD></TR></TABLE> ## Related artworks - [Exterior view]() - [Exterior view]() - [Exterior view]() - [Newton's Discovery of the Refraction of Light]() - [Stool]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()