Statue of Cupid and Psyche in resin and bronze
€187.00
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Description:
Statue of "Cupid and Psyche" made in resin and bronze
"Cupid and Psyche are the two protagonists of a well-known story narrated by Apuleius in his work The Metamorphoses, even if it is considered to date back to an oral tradition prior to the author. In the story narrated by Apuleius, Psyche, a mortal with beauty equal to Venus, becomes the wife of Cupid without however knowing who her husband is, who hides his nature as a divinity from her and appears only in the darkness of the night. Once discovered his identity at the instigation of her envious sisters, she is forced, before being able to reunite with her divine consort, to carry out a series of tests, at the end of which she will obtain immortality. "
Dimensions:
30x29 cm
Colours:
Bronze
Statue reproduction in bronzed resin glazed by hand and inspired by the techniques used by ancient peoples. Lost wax casting is the process for making bronze statues used since ancient times and to this day the most used by sculptors to obtain statues with complex shapes.
The resin and bronze are added to a hardening liquid and manually poured into negative molds, in which they solidify upon cooling. Once the resin has hardened, the molds are opened and the rough statues are extracted. This phase is followed by another that includes cleaning the sculptures from any residues from processing, repairing and smoothing them by hand.
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Description:
Statue of "Cupid and Psyche" made in resin and bronze
"Cupid and Psyche are the two protagonists of a well-known story narrated by Apuleius in his work The Metamorphoses, even if it is considered to date back to an oral tradition prior to the author. In the story narrated by Apuleius, Psyche, a mortal with beauty equal to Venus, becomes the wife of Cupid without however knowing who her husband is, who hides his nature as a divinity from her and appears only in the darkness of the night. Once discovered his identity at the instigation of her envious sisters, she is forced, before being able to reunite with her divine consort, to carry out a series of tests, at the end of which she will obtain immortality. "
Dimensions:
30x29 cm
Colours:
Bronze