Venus and Cupid 1662 - 1665 by Carlo Cignani, 1628-1719, Italy, Italian, Venus is the goddess of love and fertility in the Roman pantheon. She is often presented nude as an idealized female form. She stands with her son Cupid, who acts as her messenger on earth where his arrows trigger love
The Story Psyche is so beautiful that the jealous goddess Venus commands her son Cupid to make her fall in love with an unworthy man. However, Cupid falls in love with Psyche himself.
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