Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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 ...
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 ...
Cupid Crowned by Psyche or Psyche Crowning Cupid is an oil-on-canvas painting executed ca. 1785–1790 by Jean-Baptiste Greuze, now in the Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille.It shows a scene from the myth of Cupid and Psyche, with a figure of Modesty standing behind Psyche and two cupids in the background placing rose crowns on a bed and throwing incense on a tripod.
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 ]
Kewpie is a brand of dolls and figurines that were conceived as comic strip characters by cartoonist Rose O'Neill.The illustrated cartoons, appearing as baby cupid characters, began to gain popularity after the publication of O'Neill's comic strips in 1909, and O'Neill began to illustrate and sell paper doll versions of the Kewpies.
Venus Blindfolding Cupid is an oil on canvas painting by Titian, from c. 1565. It is held in the Galleria Borghese, in Rome. [1] The painting has been copied many times.
Sir Humphrey Morice, a businessman and the then Governor of the Bank of England, purchased the work from Batoni on April 1, 1762. [2] [3] Morice, an animal lover, commissioned Batoni to portray an allegory of himself resting on the Roman countryside in a form of a dog and mythical figures of Greek god and goddess namely Cupid and Diana respectively.
Cranach's style inVenus and Cupid with the Honeycomb is influenced by the Danube school, of which Cranach was a founder member. This explains why the painted lines in the image of Venus and Cupid with the Honeycomb are delicate and graceful. As seen in the character of Venus, this has resulted in a nearly stylized representation of the figures.