The central silver panel depicts an angel or putto with outstretched wings and arms, soaring heavenward. |
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The cymbals have sounded, and one of the leopards has turned to look at a goat harassing a putto in the foreground. |
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A blue-winged putto, garlanded with pink and white flowers, gazes forward into the viewer's space. |
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A putto, holding aloft a long, thorned stem, which is topped by a tiny house, seems to imply a whole mythic structure. |
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If so, are the millstone and putto in keeping with his approach to such illustrations? |
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The putto about to crush a dragon with a stone is a motif he would reuse in goldsmithing. |
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An aging, well-dressed don masked in dark glasses sits before a Tiepolo-like fresco of some celestial investiture involving putto and sword. |
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Meanwhile, the other winged putto looks sadly over her shoulder, perhaps pitying Cupid, or possibly foreseeing his own fate. |
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In her drawing of a putto flying over Montreal, she displays a keen sense of humour about the whimsical nature of love. |
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The décor of the cast iron insert stands out with its blacksmith putto and bold foliage motifs. |
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On top of the grave monument sits a weeping putto with an hourglass, a skull and a torch turned upside down. |
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On this side, a hoary, muscular river god reclines by a stream and pours water from a jar for a thirsty greyhound tugged by a putto. |
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In the foreground a young putto kneels before a barrel of what is undoubtedly wine. |
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Fountain made of stone from Saint-Maximin, representing a conch blowing putto triton sitting on a stone. |
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The painting is an allegory of Day and Night, represented both left and right by a woman with a putto, respectively set in a landscape of dawn and twilight. |
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With the revival of classical mythological subjects in the late 15th century, Cupid was commonly represented as a putto, and numbers of anonymous putti were frequently depicted in attendance on various immortals. |
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