LOGGIA OF CUPID AND PSYCHE

The Loggia of Psyche (1517), once was the main entrance of the Villa Farnesina, facing the gardens of the Villa, the Loggia was designed by Raphael in continuity with the outside world, and to penetrate the foliage of the garden into the Loggia, he drew the festoons that Giovanni da Udine painted beautifully.

The loggia is one of the finest examples of Renaissance profane art.

The myth of Cupid and Psyche is narrated by Apuleius in the Metamorphoses.

Psyche mortal woman, beautiful as Venus joins Cupid without knowing who he is, because he appears in the darkness of night.
The envious sisters of Psyche reveal the divine identity of the lover, provoking the anger of Venus.

Then Psyche, in order to rejoin the divine Cupid, will have to pass a series of trials, at the end of which she also become immortal.

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