Psyche

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This is a plaster version of Thorvaldsen's marble Psyche (A821), missing the subject's wings. In the mythological story, Psyche must complete a series of tasks set by Venus in order to marry Cupid. The last trial Venus imposes on Psyche is a quest to the underworld. She is to take a box (pyxis) and return it to the overworld. As soon as she enters the light of day, however, Psyche is overcome by a bold curiosity, and can't resist opening the box in hope of enhancing her own beauty. She finds nothing inside but an "Infernal and Stygian sleep", which sends her into a deep and unmoving torpor.

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Thorvaldsen
Thorvaldsens Museum opened on 18 September 1848 and was the first public museum building in Denmark. The characteristic museum building was built to exhibit the extensive life’s work of the sculptor Bertel Thorvaldsen (1770-1844) and today still looks more or less as it did when it opened over 150 years ago. Thorvaldsens Museum also contains Thorvaldsen's drawings and sketches for sculptures and reliefs. In addition Thorvaldsen was a passionate collector, so the museum also exhibits his extensive collections of paintings from his own time and collections of artworks and objects from Greek, Roman and Egyptian antiquity. The museum also shows changing exhibitions that go into greater depth with aspects of the permanent collections, including contemporary art.

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