Explore: Cupids (art)

Erotes. Cupids are a frequent motif of both Roman art and later Western art of the classical tradition. In the 15th century, the iconography of Cupid starts

Cupid and Psyche is a story originally from Metamorphoses (also called The Golden Ass), written in the 2nd century AD by Lucius Apuleius Madaurensis (or

version is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Having been recently awakened, Psyche reaches up toward her lover, Cupid, as he gently holds her by supporting

Hellenistic art, and may appear in Roman art in the alternate form of multiple Cupids or Cupids and Psyches. In the later tradition of Western art, Erotes

Love and Psyche or Cupid and Psyche is an 1817 painting by Jacques-Louis David, now in the Cleveland Museum of Art. It shows Cupid and Psyche. It was

villa near Naples. In the description entitled Cupids (Erotes), Philostratus portrays a "swarm" of cupids in a fragrant garden gathering apples, kissing

Michelangelo's cupid, until Paul Norton's proposal that Michelangelo's work may be in the Album of Busts and Statues in Whitehall. This led to one of the cupids on

with Stormy Sunset (Art UK), Cows at a Pool (Art UK), Sunny Days in the Forest (Art UK), The Storm (Art UK), Venus and Two Cupids (Art UK) Abraham Diepraam

lover is Cupid, the son of the goddess Venus. The subject was a popular one in European art. Unusually Reynolds focuses attention on Cupid rather than

by Vermeer. The painting of Cupid on the wall behind the girl resembles a painting from Vermeer's own collection of art, a painting by Cesar van Everdingen