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Vigée Le Brun Self-Portrait
Vigée Le Brun offers us a highly calculated image in which she explicitly associates herself with a great artist and his sitter. Looking at us directly with an open expression as she holds the tools of her profession (a palette and brushes), she presents herself as an elegant society lady and as an accomplished professional artist. https://www.fineartphotographyvideoart.com/2019/12/Elisabeth-Vigee-le-Brun-Self-Portrait.html -
Cupid and Psyche
In the Metamorphoses (The Golden Ass), Apuleius tells the story of Cupid and Psyche. Venus was jealous of the the princess Psyche’s beauty and decided to take revenge on her by making her fall in love with the worst mortal man. She instructed her son Cupid to carry out her plan. However, he fell in love with the princess himself and they secretly married.