Cupid

Most accurately is the statue of Cupid – the god of love himself – and Psyche (PowerPoint 3). As the statue shows, it appears that Cupid is leaving and Psyche is holding onto him – reluctant to let him go. This is similar to their myth, which describes Cupid’s mother Venus (also known as Aphrodite) being overwhelmingly jealous of Psyche’s beauty. Her jealousy was so astrong that she ordered her son to make Psyche fall in love with a beast. Instead, Cupid falls in love with the princess, but…

quotation about the Queen. "Flying between the cold moon and the earth, cupid all arm'd. A certain aim he took at a fair vestal throned by {the} west, and loos'd his love shaft smartly from his bow, as it should pierce a hundred thousand hearts; but I might see young cupids fiery shaft."(II.i.156) and the quotation above is basically saying; Cupid came to shoot you with his arrow, and you refused to accept love and so cupid raged full of anger and shot you with fury instead. He shoots you with…

force is depicted by using the Gods to bring Queen Dido and Aeneas together for the sake of love. To begin with, Virgil projected all Gods in Book IV as an outside force and it shows simply because of the little internal involvement on the Humans. Cupid, the God of love, desire, and attraction, ignited Dido’s…

because the motivation for her actions originated within herself; similarly, Amata retains some free will despite being influenced by the gods, and both her future and her city suffer as a result. Dido suffers greatly as a result of being struck by Cupid 's arrow: her city falls to the wayside and its development slows to a halt as she falls for Aeneas. Dido is described as “burning" for Aeneas, and in their year-long torrid romance, she becomes a less powerful queen (Aen. 4.79). Despite the…

similarity; both live chastely, even if for distinct reasons. Diana is also the goddess of the hunt and so is often represented with a bow and “at her back a quiver” (IV.192). A double irony plays in this comparison, for it is “Diana” who gets shot by Cupid. It is also during a hunt that she marries Aeneas and thus loses her aforementioned similarity to Diana. Finally, Diana is the twin sister of Apollo, the god of the sun, which naturally makes Diana goddess of the moon; “and the moon is…

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Fourment. The celebration takes place outside his home in a relaxed and flirtatious atmosphere; the group of people in the painting are flirting and showing no care to the world. If to invite a more dramatic scene, he paints cupids, a pair of doves, and a yolk carried by a cupid (means conjugal love) to emphasize that there is love in the “air”. He even uses sculptures of the three Graces (charm, beauty, and joy), Venus…

the transformations, to inspire his work. All of this seems to be a ploy to comically provide the intro for what can be best described as chaos. Book I begins with the story of Daphne and Apollo. We see the first element of transformation with Cupid. Cupid is the naughty son of Venus, who possesses arrows that…

him get to her while she could have gave him something completely different to satisfy his vapid life. Psyche and Cupid has another quote that says, “The inhabitants of this valley say that your husband is a terrible and monstrous serpent...Take our advice. Provide yourself with a sharp knife”(Benson). Consequently, she took her sister’s advice and the demonstrative feelings that Cupid had for her were gone due to the mistake of listening to her sister’s. In conclusion, the many themes…

‘Traditional art is culturally significant. Fine art references to European traditions are in oil paintings, sculpture or architecture.’ (eHow, Undated). For hundreds of years women have had very few rights and were expected to be submissive to male figures. They were confined to their ‘traditional gender roles’. Art is an expression of someone’s point of view or beliefs. It has been said that western/traditional European art in particular is an expression of the values and beliefs of the upper…