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  2. Cupid - Wikipedia

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    Cupid was the enemy of chastity, and the poet Ovid opposes him to Diana, the virgin goddess of the hunt who likewise carries a bow but who hates Cupid's passion-provoking arrows. [71] Cupid is also at odds with Apollo, the archer-brother of Diana and patron of poetic inspiration whose love affairs almost always end disastrously. Ovid jokingly ...

  3. Sleeping Cupid (Michelangelo) - Wikipedia

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    The Sleeping Cupid was a significant work in establishing the reputation of the young Michelangelo, who was 21 at the time. [7] The sculpture was later donated by Cesare Borgia to Isabella d'Este, and was probably collected by Charles I of England when all the Gonzaga collections were bought and taken to London in the seventeenth century. [5]

  4. Category:Paintings of Cupid - Wikipedia

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    Venus, Cupid, Folly and Time; W. The Worship of Venus This page was last edited on 2 April 2018, at 18:17 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...

  5. Angel (Michelangelo) - Wikipedia

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    Sleeping Cupid (Michelangelo) The statue of an Angel (1494–1495) was created by Michelangelo out of marble. Its height is 51.5 cm.

  6. Angels in art - Wikipedia

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    The 13th-century book Ajā'ib al-makhlūqāt wa gharā'ib al-mawjūdāt (The Wonders of Creation) by Zakariya al-Qazwini describes Islamic angelology, and is often illustrated with many images of angels. The angels are typically depicted with bright, vivid colors, giving them unusual liveliness and other-worldly translucence. [23]

  7. Venus, Cupid, Folly and Time - Wikipedia

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    Venus, Cupid, Folly and Time (also called An Allegory of Venus and Cupid and A Triumph of Venus) is an allegorical painting of about 1545 by the Florentine painter Agnolo Bronzino. It is now in the National Gallery, London. [1] Scholars do not know for certain what the painting depicts. [1]

  8. Bacchus (Michelangelo) - Wikipedia

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    In his early career, Michelangelo had several prominent patrons who commissioned him for his work. The patron for Bacchus was the high-ranking Cardinal Raffaele Riario, who had previously bought Cupid (also known as Sleeping Cupid), a work made by Michelangelo but passed off as an authentic ancient sculpture. Cardinal Riario later discovered ...

  9. Sleeping Cupid (Caravaggio) - Wikipedia

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    Sleeping Cupid is a painting by the Italian master Caravaggio.Unlike many of Caravaggio's works, it can be dated accurately. It was commissioned for Fra Francesco dell'Antella, Florentine Secretary for Italy to Alof de Wignacourt, Grand Master of the Knights of Malta, and an old inscription on the back records that it was painted in Malta in 1608.