#cupiddeity

[greekromangods]

Venus and Cupid

Frederic Leighton (1830–1896)

Oil on canvas

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Cupid and Psyche in the Nuptial Bower

1792–1793

Hugh Douglas Hamilton (1740–1808)

Oil on canvas

National Gallery of Ireland

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[erosandcupid]

Cupid Triumphant

1814

Bertel Thorvaldsen (1770–1844)

Plaster

Thorvaldsens Museum

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Other image: A22 Marble version: A804

[greekromangods]

Cupid and Bacchus

1825–1828

Bertel Thorvaldsen (1770–1844)

Marble

Thorvaldsens Museum

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Mars and Cupid

1810

Bertel Thorvaldsen (1770–1844)

Plaster

Thorvaldsens Museum

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Mars is the god of war and so he is given a rather macho appearance. However, we meet him in peaceful surroundings together with his son, the little winged messenger of love, Cupid. So the sculpture confronts the two opposites with each other: big and small, adult and child, war and love. It is as though father and son are in the middle of some game of exchange: Cupid has for fun been allowed to try his strength on Mars’ big, heavy sword, and conversely Mars has taken Cupid’s little love game in his hand. And it is this game that is the centre of attention. Cupid is looking tensely up at his father to see whether even a god of war will be able to recognise the strength of love.

Marble version: A6

[erosandcupid]

Cupid Feeding Pigeons

Paolo Guglielmi (1804–1862)

After Luigi Bienaimé (1795–1878)

Battistelli (Publisher)

Lithograph

Thorvaldsens Museum

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[greekromangods]

Cupid Restraining Mars

17th century

Bolognese School

Oil on canvas

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Venus and Cupid

1878

Evelyn De Morgan (1855–1919)

Oil on canvas

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