Venus eros and psyche
The Myth of Eros and Psyche
Cupid and Psyche is a story originally from Metamorphoses written in the 2nd century AD by Venus is offended, and commissions Cupid to work her revenge. Cupid is sent to shoot Psyche with an arrow so that she may fall in love with.
Once upon a time...
Venus (called Aphrodite by the Greeks) may be the goddess of beauty and love, but in the story of "Cupid and Psyche," she gets downright ugly and hateful.
Description:People again fall in love and marry, animals far and wide mate, and the Earth begins to look young once again. The ceiling pieces are all foreshortenings, seen from below, and the perspective system was borrowed verbatim from Rubens' ceiling pieces in the Jesuit church in Antwerp. Psyche is to go to the Underworld and ask the queen of the Underworld, Proserpina Persephone to the Greeks , to place a bit of her beauty in a box that Venus had given to Psyche. Imploring the temple of Apollo, they learn that Psyche is destined for a much worse fate than celibacy: What happened next Venus did not count on. As he slowly approaches, careful not to make a sound, he readies one of his golden arrows. He came only in the hours of darkness and fled before the dawn of morning, but his accents were full of love, and inspired a like passion in her.
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