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“Drink, Psyche, and be immortal! Love will never be released from the bond that unites him to you. From today you are spouses for all eternity” – Apuleius "Canova interprets the story told in the ancient myth of Cupid and Psyche, taken up by Apuleius in the 2nd century AD, which tells the story of Psyche, a mortal with a beauty equal to Venus, who becomes Cupid's bride without ever being able to see her face. night, instigated by the envious sisters, manages to discover his face but is immediately abandoned by the god. Psyche will then have to face a series of tests, at the end of which she will obtain immortality and be able to reunite with her Love."

The Baths of Diocletian were public baths in ancient Rome. Named after emperor Diocletian and built from AD 298 to 306, they were the largest of the imperial baths. The baths were open until c. 537, when the Ostrogoths cut off aqueducts to the city of Rome. Now it became a museum. Henry Moore's sculpture, Warrior with Shield was shown in 2015.

"The Boxer at Rest, also known as the Defeated Boxer, or Boxer of the Quirinal, is a bronze sculpture, a Hellenistic Greek original, of a sitting nude boxer at rest, still wearing his himantes, a type of leather hand-wrap. It has been given various dates within the period of about 330 to 50 BC. It was excavated in Rome in 1885, and is now in the collection of the National Museum of Rome, normally displayed in the Palazzo Massimo alle Terme. The Boxer at Rest is one of the finest examples of bronze sculptures to have survived from the ancient world; survivals from the period are rare, as they were easily melted down and transformed into new objects. The work comes from a period in Greek art where there is a movement away from idealized heroic depictions of the body and youth, and an exploration of emotional as well as psychological themes and greater realism. These traits are typical of Hellenistic art and thoroughly displayed in this sculpture, making it a hallmark of the Hellenistic style." wikipedia

For the first time since their discovery in 1514, the “Wounded Gaul” of the Louvre and the “Defeated Persian” of Aix-en-Provence can be seen together. These two sculptures belong to a series now dispersed between Paris, Naples, Rome, Venice and Aix-en-Provence.

"Emmanuel Frémiet was commissioned to create the sculpture in 1872. At that time, the Third Republic had been in place for less than two years and France's defeat in the war with Germany was close at hand. At the same time, the figure of Joan of Arc was enjoying a resurgence in popularity (in 1869, the Bishop of Orléans delivered a panegyric on Joan and her beatification was launched, which was completed in 1909); the new regime saw a parallel between the situation of France in 1429, invaded by English armies but on the verge of regaining its territory, and its own, with France militarily occupied by Germany and amputated from Alsace-Lorraine. Frémiet was then a 48 year old sculptor, specialising in realistic animal sculpture. The war affected him considerably: his studio was looted by the occupying forces and several of his public commissions disappeared in the destruction of the Tuileries Palace and the events of the Paris Commune. After making a plaster cast, Frémiet received a firm order from the State on 15 December 1872, for the sum of 25,000 francs. The model for the statue is not known: according to legend, Frémiet chose a peasant woman who was born like Joan of Arc in Domrémy and who later died in 1936 in a fire in her building. The statue was cast in 1874 and erected on the Place des Pyramides, in the 1st arrondissement of Paris, near the place where Joan of Arc was supposedly wounded during her attempt to enter Paris."

Demeter, Vei for the Etruscans, Ceres for the Romans Greek goddess of grain and agriculture, Demeter oversees the alternating seasons and the cycle of life and death. The very particular and evocative simulacrum of the divinity was found in a rock sanctuary near Vetralla, in the province of Viterbo, which partially escaped clandestine looting, and has returned the cult statue with its furnishings to the cell dedicated to the female divinity. (late 3rd century BC - early 2nd century BC). Demetra , Vei per gli etruschi, Cerere per i romani Dea greca del grano e dell'agricoltura, Demetra sovrintende all'alternarsi delle stagioni e del ciclo della vita e della morte. Il particolarissimo e suggestivo simulacro della divinita' fu rinvenuto in un santuario rupestre nei pressi di Vetralla, in provincia di Viterbo, in parte scampato al saccheggio clandestino, e ha restituito nella cella dedicata alla divinita' femminile, la statua di culto con i suoi arredi (fine III sec. a.C. - inizi II sec. a.C.).

The exhibition 'The Age of Anguish. From Commodus to Diocletian (180-305 A.D.)" was held in Rome in 2015. "The title of the exhibition takes its cue from a work by Eric Dodds entitled 'Pagans and Christians in an Age of Distress'. published in 1965, dedicated specifically to the 3rd century AD. Dodds was a friend of the Anglo-American poet W.H. Auden, who in 1947 had published The Age of Anxiety, a poem capable of shedding light on the emptiness of existence in the period of the Second World War, characterised by the conversion or return to Christianity and the desire to adhere to a religious creed, by a 'leap of faith'." https://museicapitolini.org/it/guida-catalogo/l-et-dell-angoscia-da-commodo-diocleziano-180-305-dc

These Nymphs by Jean Goujon are now in the Louvre Museum. The Fontaine des Innocents is a monumental public fountain located on the place Joachim-du-Bellay in the Les Halles district in the 1st arrondissement of Paris, France. Originally called the Fountain of the Nymphs, it was constructed between 1547 and 1550 by architect Pierre Lescot and sculptor Jean Goujon in the new style of the French Renaissance. It is the oldest monumental fountain in Paris.

Live screening at the Babylon Kino in Berlin, Friday 30th October, 2015 during the European Film Festival. In its historic sites, the Middle Gate exhibition, Geel 2013, linked the expressive productions of two categories of people: Artists and Crazy Folk. More precisely, by attempting to benefit from Geel’s secular tradition of welcoming the mentally unwell, this international art event proposed a visual reflexion on the norms covering, and the discrepancies between, mental health and madness. This development on the town of a fruitful link between art and psychiatry was driven by the efforts of Jan Hoet, organiser of the exhibition. Aude Rain’s documentary pays tribute to the richness of his results.

Paintings and sculptures made by Hugo Wilson, contemporary artist.

Sculptures of Emily Young , contemporary artist.

Colbert's tomb "Louis XIV's famous Comptroller General of Finance, Jean Baptiste Colbert, is buried here, and his superb mausoleum can still be admired in what was the Colbert family chapel. Colbert's funerary monument (1619-1683) has the importance befitting a great statesman. Le Brun designed the composition, and the two sculptors Antoine Coysevox(1640-1720) and Jean-Baptiste Tuby(1635-1700) created it in 1685. Antoine Coysevox created the praying man and the figure of Fidelity, while Tuby created Abundance and an angel presenting the deceased with a prayer book, which was destroyed during the Revolution. The majestic praying man is clad in the great mantle of the Order of the Holy Spirit. Fidelity turns towards him with an expression of regret, while Abundance looks down in renunciation. The majestic praying man is dressed in the great mantle of the Order of the Holy Spirit. Fidelity turns to him with an expression laden with regret as Abundance looks down in renunciation. Jean-Baptiste Colbert (1619, Reims – 1683, Paris), protected by Mazarin, entered the service of King Louis XIV of France on his death. Colbert was buried at St Eustache in 1683. Colbert's funeral procession took place at night, in fear of the hatred of the people, who blamed him for raising taxes. During the Revolution, his remains were thrown into a grave in the Saint-Eustache cemetery. All that remained of the statesman under his tomb were his pelvis and his legs. His son, Jean-Baptiste Antoine Colbert, Marquis de Seignelay (1651-1690), who succeeded his father as Secretary of State for the Navy, was buried in the same tomb. The church is also the resting place of Scaramouche, Marivaux, Rameau and Admiral de Tourville. La Fontaine, Mirabeau and Mozart's mother were also buried here. Richelieu, Molière and Madame de Pompadour were baptised here. Louis XIV made his First Communion here, and Lully was married here in 1662." http://www.paris-autrement.paris/eglise-saint-eustache-tombeau-de-colbert/

Portuguese Rose Marble "Earth Dreamer I is part of a series of sculptures created by environmental artist, Emily Young. The primary objective of her sculpture is to bring the relationship of humankind and the planet into a closer conjunction. "

1st century BC - 2nd century AD limestone, marble Aquileia is an ancient Roman city in Italy, at the head of the Adriatic at the edge of the lagoons, about 10 kilometres (6 mi) from the sea, on the river Natiso (modern Natisone), the course of which has changed somewhat since Roman times. Today, the city is small (about 3,500 inhabitants), but it was large and prominent in classical antiquity as one of the world's largest cities with a population of 100,000 in the 2nd century CE and is one of the main archaeological sites of northern Italy. In late antiquity the city was the first city in the Italian Peninsula to be sacked by Attila the Hun.

Statutory group depicting the cult of Mithras, Mithras slaying the bull accompagnied by his two torchbeares Cautopates (left) and Cautes (right), from the Mithraeum at Sidon (Colonia Aurelia Pia, Syria), Louvre Museum

Enrique Marty, contemporary artist from Spain

The work depicts a girl trying to free herself, lifted by a man at whose feet is an old man, who is in despair. It represents an episode of ancient Roman history, the Rape of the Sabine Women: Romulus, king and founder of the city, had the Sabine women kidnapped so that the Romans had someone to procreate with. The work represents the drama and violence of that moment. However, it also has another definition, the three ages of life. The older man is dominated by a man, who holds a girl, even younger than him. When he created the work, Giambologna, the great master of Mannerism, was the official sculptor of the Medici.

Samson Slaying a Philistine was carved by Giambologna (Jean Boulogne, 1529 – 1608), a Flemish sculptor who worked for the Medici family in Florence. It was imported to the UK from Italy as a diplomatic gift in the early 17th century. "The motif of the piece, 'Samson Slaying a Philistine', is taken from an episode described in the Bible, in the Old Testament's Book of Judges: 'And he (Samson) found a new jawbone of an ass, and put his hand and took it and slew a thousand men therewith'. "

Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek "Rodin intended these delicate, lyrical figures to be part of a Parisian monument honoring French workers. Instead of decorating a standard pedestal, they would crown a tall spiral staircase with bas-relief sculptures depicting scenes of different kinds of labor. They would be, as Rodin described them, "two winged geniuses who descend from heaven, like a beneficent rain, to bless the work of men." The monument project faltered, but Rodin remained devoted to the plan for the enormous structure, even proposing it as his own burial site."

"The subject is taken from Ovid's Metamorphoses: Achelous was the rival of Hercules for the love of Deianira; during the fight, Achelous was transformed into a serpent but was defeated by Hercules. Thus Hercules made himself loved by Deianira Subsequently, trying to rekindle his love for her, Deianira offered Hercules a tunic impregnated with the blood of Nessus which, instead of being a love potion, turned out to be a burning poison."