Raphael's Loggia of Cupid and Psyche in the Villa Farnesina: an analysis of the hermetic ideals related to alchemy KU Leuven
The progress of my dissertation in Chapter One involves a detailed and well documented analysis of the reception given the Cupid and Psyche tale, derived from the second century ‘Golden Ass’ of Apuleius, by its learned Renaissance readership. Placed among the hermetic texts considered by Italian humanists important to Christian exegesis, Apuleius’ ‘fabula’ in the’Golden Ass’ was consequently thought to contain pagan ...