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Valentine's Day, also called Saint Valentine's Day or the Feast of Saint Valentine, [1] is celebrated annually on February 14. [2] It originated as a Christian feast day honoring a martyr named Valentine , and through later folk traditions it has also become a significant cultural, religious and commercial celebration of romance and love in ...
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Cupid was the enemy of chastity, and the poet Ovid opposes him to Diana, the virgin goddess of the hunt who likewise carries a bow but who hates Cupid's passion-provoking arrows. [71] Cupid is also at odds with Apollo, the archer-brother of Diana and patron of poetic inspiration whose love affairs almost always end disastrously. Ovid jokingly ...
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Love and Psyche or Cupid and Psyche is an 1817 painting by Jacques-Louis David, now in the Cleveland Museum of Art. It shows Cupid and Psyche . It was produced during David's exile in Brussels , [ 1 ] for the patron and collector Gian Battista Sommariva .
[1] [2] It perhaps depicts a figure representing the bride dressed in white, sitting beside Cupid and accompanied by the goddess Venus. [3] The title of the painting is first recorded in 1693, when it was listed in an inventory as Amor Divino e Amor Profano (Divine love and Profane love), and may not represent the original concept at all. [2 ...
Venus, Adonis and Cupid; Venus and Adonis (Titian) Venus and Adonis (Veronese, Augsburg) Venus and Adonis (Rubens, 1635) Venus and Adonis (Veronese, Madrid) Venus and Amor; Venus and Cupid (Titian) Venus and Cupid (Gentileschi) Venus and Cupid (Lotto) Venus and Cupid (Pontormo) Venus and Cupid (Sustris) Venus and Cupid with a Honeycomb