#putto

[lookingbackatfashionhistory]

• Oval medallion with a floating putto.

• Bracelet with carved roses and leaves.

• Bracelet decorated with appliqué flower bouquets.

Date: 1850-1870

Place of origin: Rome (?)

Collection: Lopez Suasso-de Bruijn collection

[ultrainfinitepit]

Astrological Putti - with adjusted colors ⭐

[artthatgivesmefeelings]

José del Castillo (Spanish, 1737-1793) Alegoría de la Arquitectura, Fama, Aritmética, Música, Astronomía, y la Pintura, ca. 1775

[mythologypaintings]

The Silver Age

Artist: Jacopo Zucchi (Florentine, 1541-1590)

Date: c. 1575

Medium: Oil on panel

Collection: Uffizi Galleries, Florence, Italy

Description

Ovid relates that in the Silver Age, Jupiter took control of the world and divided the year into four seasons. Then, for the first time, men needed a shelter and had to cultivate the land to procure supplies for the winter.

[faux-404]

Happy Valentines!

[allegorypaintings]

Allegory of Peace

Artist: Jan Lievens (Dutch, 1607-1674)

Date: 1652

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Description

The painting shows a seated female who represents peace being crowned with a laurel wreath by a woman who is clad in armour who represents war. Under her feet lies a man in armor with a sword, his hands wrapped in chains. On her left, women have baskets of fruit and a putto is playing a drum. On her right two other putti put chains on the man’s feet. Also on her right are more putti and women with flowers. The painting depicts Minerva, the Roman goddess of wisdom, crowning Pax, the goddess of peace, who holds an olive branch. The man in chains under the feet of Pax is Mars, the god of war.

[raven-foxx-art]

"The Herald", oil on canvas panel.

Little lamb putto painting.

[illustratus]

Aurora and Cephalus - (French Neoclassical School, Circa 1810)