La psiche
La psiche is a 1654 Italian book published in Lucca by Francesco Marescandoli, with an allegorical poem about the mythological figure Psyche as its subject. The single plate shows a crowned, standing female figure holding a wand, flanked by two putti on a stone pedestal, drawn in fine etched lines against a cloudy sky, a restrained model for classical allegory and baroque figure composition.
