the lovers

I like how the lovers on the right side interact with each other - so cute :) looking to the left i wonder if those are envious women watching over them or some kind of  governesses.

The couple turns out to be Cupid and Psyche and I find that their love story is pretty nice.
Psyche is said to be the most beautiful girl on the island she lives on, making all the men around her falling in love with her beauty immediately. Once she goes as far as to say that she is even more beautiful than the goddess Venus . Of course Venus doesn't like a comment like that, being very vain herself, so she sends her son Cupid to hit her with one of his arrows in her sleep. The plan is for Psyche to fall in love with any thing or beast she sees after awaking.
But Cupid falls in love with her himself and plans to marry her. After long fights with Venus (where no one on earth falls in love anymore because Cupid refuses to work his magic) he is allowed to do so, but only if over a certain period of time Psyche is not to see him, but only be visited by him in the dark.
Of course some envious sisters have to enter this story as well, talking Psyche into lightening a candle at night to see her husband at least once. (That part of the story remembers me a lot of another fairy tale where a girl marries an ice bear who only turns back into a human at night and she is not allowed to see him that time as well.)
Of course Cupid flies away and Psyche is left back on Earth alone.
To regain her love and the consent of Venus she has to fulfill 3 nearly unfulfillable tasks and finally is given ambrosia and with that immortality by Zeus and the consent to her marriage with Cupid.

So nice!
I bet the two women sitting on the left are her sisters.
Well, the writing on top of them gives no hints on who they are but merely the name of the architect - and that is a great one: D. Bramante


for more details check:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cupid_and_Psyche
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donato_Bramante