Villa Carlotta
Via Statale, 5605 - 22016 Tremezzina
Tremezzo, Como
Tel. (0039) 0344 40405
segreteria@villacarlotta.it
Hours
By reservation
What's on
The garden is bathed in winter elegance!
The statue of Cupid and Psyche at Villa Carlotta is a high-quality replica of Antonio Canova's 1796 original, housed in the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg and executed a few years after the first version, now at the Louvre.
Also on display in the room is the cycle of bas-reliefs depicting episodes from the Aeneid created in the last decades of the eighteenth century by Giuseppe Franchi (Carrara 1731 – Milan 1806), one of the protagonists of Italian Neoclassicism.
The Hall of Cupid and Psyche displays a cycle of bas-reliefs depicting episodes from the Aeneid, created in the last decades of the eighteenth century by Giuseppe Franchi (Carrara 1731 – Milan 1806), one of the protagonists of Italian Neoclassicism.
Active in Rome, Parma and Milan, from 1778 until his death he was professor of sculpture at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts.