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Oh Cupid, Mon Amour! Cupids Just Being Awesome

Magda Michalska 13 February 2017 min Read

Who wouldn’t like to come across a lovely cupid one day? Who wouldn’t like to be a target of his sweet arrow?
Sending you a bunch of cupids doing things that only cupids do…

Sleeping

Blowing bubbles

Rembrandt, Cupid Blowing Soap Bubbles, 1634, private collection

Being a mask

Edward Burne-Jones, Head Study For The Masque Of Cupid, no date, private collection

Lighting the way at night in London

Joshua Reynolds, Cupid As A Link Boy, 1773, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY, US

Riding a sea monster

William-Adolphe Bouguereau, Cupid On A Sea Monster, 1857

Or riding a dolphin…

Peter Paul Rubens, Cupid Riding A Dolphin, 1636, Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels, Belgium

Becoming an emperor

Stealing Honey…

Albrecht Durer, Cupid The Honey Thief, 1514, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria

Dancing on one leg to impress Venus

Lucas Cranach the Elder, Venus And Cupid, 1540, Alte Pinakothek, Munich, Germany

Enjoying the roses

Jean-Honore Fragonard, Cupid Between The Roses, no date, private collection

Just being the best!

Caravaggio, Amor Victorious, 1602, Gemäldegalerie, Berlin, Germany

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Magda Michalska

Magda, art historian and Italianist, she writes about art because she cannot make it herself. She loves committed and political artists like Ai Weiwei or the Futurists; like Joseph Beuys she believes that art can change us and we can change the world.