Psyche unintentionally hurt herself with Cupid’s arrow that later resulted to a deeper passion. Little has been published concerning the life of the 3rd Baron Selsey, however his obituary reveals that as a former Lieutenant in the Royal Navy, from 1807, he was well-travelled having served in Java, Bengal and Madras. The final character is May Welland’s fiancée and soon to be husband, Newland Archer. It is unclear whether Wharton sees New York’s 19th century “innocence” as an endearing feature of a society still free from modernism, or as a sign of its naivety and ignorance. Thorvaldsen, Thorvaldsen: Und Seine Bildhauerschule in Rom, Vienna, 1998. He fell in love with her, knowing he was engaged to her cousin, and supported her. Request Permissions. Holding up the Revealing Lamp: The Myth of Psyche in Edith Wharton's The Reef Wendell Jones, Jr. Jones is writing his dissertation on "The Dialectic Between Southern Stoicism and Christian Existentialism in the Fiction of Walker Percy" at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Many works by Bienaimé are untraced including, until the present, this example. Bienaimé’s 'Mercury’ is in the Palazzo Corsini, Rome, and a 'Venus’ is in the Museo Civico, Turin. He is engaged to the lovely May Welland but falls in love with Ellen Olenska. Irony, in which meaning is inverted to suggest the opposite of what is written, is used throughout “The Age of Innocence” to highlight and gently mock the superficiality of the New York elite. Throughout the book, Countess Ellen Olenska displays many character traits which the people of old New York are not quite used to. The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton is a book that gave the word "love" many other meanings, such as impossible, meaningless and incomplete. Now the dial has resurfaced, Two monumental equestrian statues by the Russian master of detail are coming to auction for the first time, A LIFE-SIZE MARBLE FIGURE OF 'PSYCHE WITH THE LAMP'. She was treated badly by many people and always longed for love but never obtained it. He was the man who truly cared for her and always helped her make decisions. This magnificent sculpture, 'Psyche with the lamp’, depicting the deity as she approaches Cupid sleeping, is almost certainly the first model by Luigi Bienaimé (d. 1878), executed in 1835, for Henry John Peachey, 3rd Baron Selsey (d. 1838). cit., p. 163). Archer finds redemption in his sons, love and pity coming from May. Furthermore, when she wanted to get a divorce Newland Archer, being a lawyer, talked to her about it and made her change her mind. 689-690, 1428. 4, 1953. On the 21 October 1817, the 3rd Baron Selsey married Anna-Maria-Louisa Irby (d. 1870), daughter of Frederick, 2nd Baron Boston. (152 cm.) Ulick de Burgh, 1st Marquess of Clanricade and by descent to the 6th Earl of Harewood. Archer begins to suspect that May will never be able to think for herself, that she has been so thoroughly conditioned by her elders that if she were given freedom she would still be unable to act on her own. Luigi Bienaimé designed at least three versions of Psyche, the present example 'Psyche with the lamp’, a second holding just a dagger, both illustrated in Sculture di Luigi Bienaimé (Ricci, op. Together with the preceding lot, ‘Love tormenting the Soul’ by John Gibson, the two sculptures are part of the Selsey marbles, and are listed in Walks through the Studii of the Sculptors at Rome, published in 1841 (Hawks Le Grice, op. Hopkins Fulfillment Services (HFS) Project MUSE® The biggest constant motif of The Age of Innocence is mortality and immortality.

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