Hello and welcome to my blog!

Hello lovely friends and welcome to my blog! I hope you are having a lovely day!  I wanted to create some very special creations to celebrate Valentines month; so I  have designed this blog!  Here you will find lots of vintage creations for the next Fourteen days up until February 14th. 

I really appreciate you stopping by and please have fun visiting here to see all of my designs and to collect your freebie Valentine images every day! 

The story of Cupid and Psyche:

In 1694 Luca Giordano was appointed painter to Charles II of Spain. The set of paintings on copper illustrates the story of Cupid and Psyche from the Golden Ass by the 2nd century writer Apuleius, which was well known at the Spanish court. The series may be unfinished as the twelve surviving paintings tell only half the story. This is rare for Giordano, whose facility with a brush was legendary-he was called 'Luca fa presto' (Luca the fast worker) The story Psyche is so beautiful that the jealous goddess Venus commands her son Cupid to make her fall in love with an unworthy man. However, Cupid falls in love with Psyche himself. Concerned about Psyche's lack f suitors, her parents consult the oracle of Apollo. They are told that Psyche's future husband is a monster and that she must be abandoned on top of a mountain. The west wind, Zephyrus saves her and carries her to Cupid's palace. Cupid visits Psyche only at night and forbids her to make any attempt to see him. Psyche is curious abut her lover's appearance and is fearful after her two jealous sisters convince her that Cupid is a serpentine monster. Urged on by them she conceals a lamp and knife in her bedchamber. When Cupid is asleep, Psyche illuminates his beautiful figure with the lamp, but a drop of hot oil accidently wakes him. Angrily he flies off with Psyche clinging desperately to his ankle. Psyche tries to drown herself but Pan tells her to win back Cupid's love. Venus sets Psyche a series of increasingly difficult tasks. Although Psyche fails the final task, the gods make her immortal and she is reunited with Cupid. 

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