France: 'Psyche Revived by Cupid's Kiss'. Statue by Antonio Canova (1 November 1757 - 13 October 1822), 1793. Antonio Canova's 'Psyche Revived by Cupid's Kiss', first commissioned in 1787, exemplifies the Neoclassical devotion to love and emotion. It represents the god Cupid in the height of love and tenderness, immediately after awakening the lifeless Psyche with a kiss, a scene excerpted from Lucius Apuleius' The Golden Ass. A masterpiece of its period, it appeals to the senses of sight and touch, yet simultaneously alludes to the Romantic interest in emotion co-existing with Neoclassicism.

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