Bust of Psyche, Greek goddess of the soul, holding a butterfly by its wings. Human beauty abducted by Eros. In carnelian. Psiche. In corniola. Copperplate engraving by Giovanni Battista Galestruzzi after Leonardo Agostini from Gemmae et Sculpturae Antiquae Depicti ab Leonardo Augustino Senesi, Abraham Blooteling, Amsterdam, 1685.

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