Louvre Museum
The collection that I saw and liked is the face of Greek woman. This mask is broken under the chin, but the good thing is that the face together with the ears and head has been able to remain intact. The paint of the mask can not be seen from the face, the only trace of the paint is some red color at the corner of the lips.
The black color of the hair is preserved well. This is a Greek face with a very straight nose, perfect oval, barely smiling lips, eyebrow ridges are curved and dimples seen around the chin. The ears are placed high on the head with the eyes inlaid with white and black glass. Something else that I liked from the museum is the story of Psyche and Cupid.
The picture shows a winged man who has landed on a rock where there was a girl lying down there unconscious. The winged man is the god of Eros, Cupid who has wings and his quiver is full of arrows. Psyche is the name of the girl. Venus who is the mother of cupid the goddess of beauty had demanded psyche to go and bring a flask from the underworld and she had forbidden her to open it.
But psyche was very curious and decided to open the flask and breathed the terrible fumes whereby she fell into a deep sleep. When cupid sow her she went towards her and touched her with his arrows tip and then lifted her in a tender embrace with his face very close to his lover. This is the most interesting art that I saw where the kiss of Cupid was able to revive Psyche from the deathlike sleep.
Reference
“Louvre” from http://www.louvre.fr/en/homepage accessed on 13th July 2012
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