1/internal/media/dispatcher/47521/fullCupid and Psychec. 1890[Theodor Friedl]Theodor FriedlMarbleThey seem weightless: Psyche, a mortal daughter of a king and personification of the soul, and Cupid, the winged god of love. Night after night, Cupid visited the princess. Psyche has closed her eyes anticipating his kiss, for in the classical myth she was ordered not to look at her beloved. Friedl has taken marble to the limits of what is technically possible, emulating Rome’s great Baroque sculptor Gian Lorenzo Bernini some 250 years earlier. This exquisite workmanship is revealed especially in the figure of Cupid, his wings and his raised arm. A misplaced chisel or a careless hammer blow could have destroyed the entire work in a moment.Sculpturehttps://sammlungtest.belvedere.at/objects/4653/rdf