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</div> </a> <ul id="toc-Demon_of_fornication-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Sleeping_Cupid" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Sleeping_Cupid"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.5</span> <span>Sleeping Cupid</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Sleeping_Cupid-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Love_Conquers_All" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Love_Conquers_All"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.6</span> <span><i>Love Conquers All</i></span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Love_Conquers_All-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Roman_Cupid" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Roman_Cupid"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4</span> <span>Roman <i>Cupid</i></span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Roman_Cupid-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Cupid_and_Psyche" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Cupid_and_Psyche"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5</span> <span>Cupid and Psyche</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Cupid_and_Psyche-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Depictions" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Depictions"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">6</span> <span>Depictions</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Depictions-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-See_also" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#See_also"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">7</span> <span>See also</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-See_also-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-References" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#References"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">8</span> <span>References</span> </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-References-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> <span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-expand"></span> <span>Toggle References subsection</span> </button> <ul id="toc-References-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Bibliography" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Bibliography"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">8.1</span> <span>Bibliography</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Bibliography-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-External_links" 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title="Amor (Mythologie) – Alemannic" lang="gsw" hreflang="gsw" data-title="Amor (Mythologie)" data-language-autonym="Alemannisch" data-language-local-name="Alemannic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Alemannisch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ar mw-list-item"><a href="https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%88%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%AF" title="كيوبيد – Arabic" lang="ar" hreflang="ar" data-title="كيوبيد" data-language-autonym="العربية" data-language-local-name="Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>العربية</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ast mw-list-item"><a href="https://ast.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cupidu" title="Cupidu – Asturian" lang="ast" hreflang="ast" data-title="Cupidu" data-language-autonym="Asturianu" data-language-local-name="Asturian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Asturianu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-az mw-list-item"><a href="https://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amur_(mifologiya)" title="Amur (mifologiya) – Azerbaijani" lang="az" hreflang="az" data-title="Amur (mifologiya)" data-language-autonym="Azərbaycanca" data-language-local-name="Azerbaijani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Azərbaycanca</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bn mw-list-item"><a href="https://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%95%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%89%E0%A6%AA%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%A1" title="কিউপিড – Bangla" lang="bn" hreflang="bn" data-title="কিউপিড" data-language-autonym="বাংলা" data-language-local-name="Bangla" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>বাংলা</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-be mw-list-item"><a href="https://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D1%83%D0%BF%D1%96%D0%B4%D0%BE%D0%BD" title="Купідон – Belarusian" lang="be" hreflang="be" data-title="Купідон" data-language-autonym="Беларуская" data-language-local-name="Belarusian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Беларуская</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bg mw-list-item"><a href="https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D1%83%D0%BF%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%BE%D0%BD" title="Купидон – Bulgarian" lang="bg" hreflang="bg" data-title="Купидон" data-language-autonym="Български" data-language-local-name="Bulgarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Български</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bs mw-list-item"><a href="https://bs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kupid" title="Kupid – Bosnian" lang="bs" hreflang="bs" data-title="Kupid" data-language-autonym="Bosanski" data-language-local-name="Bosnian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bosanski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-br mw-list-item"><a href="https://br.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kupidon" title="Kupidon – Breton" lang="br" hreflang="br" data-title="Kupidon" data-language-autonym="Brezhoneg" data-language-local-name="Breton" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Brezhoneg</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cupido" title="Cupido – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="Cupido" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Català</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cupid" title="Cupid – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="Cupid" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Čeština</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cy mw-list-item"><a href="https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ciwpid" title="Ciwpid – Welsh" lang="cy" hreflang="cy" data-title="Ciwpid" data-language-autonym="Cymraeg" data-language-local-name="Welsh" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Cymraeg</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-da mw-list-item"><a href="https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cupido" title="Cupido – Danish" lang="da" hreflang="da" data-title="Cupido" data-language-autonym="Dansk" data-language-local-name="Danish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Dansk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amor_(Mythologie)" title="Amor (Mythologie) – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Amor (Mythologie)" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-et mw-list-item"><a href="https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amor" title="Amor – Estonian" lang="et" hreflang="et" data-title="Amor" data-language-autonym="Eesti" data-language-local-name="Estonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Eesti</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-el mw-list-item"><a href="https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%9A%CE%BF%CF%8D%CF%80%CE%B9%CE%BD%CF%84%CE%BF" title="Κούπιντο – Greek" lang="el" hreflang="el" data-title="Κούπιντο" data-language-autonym="Ελληνικά" data-language-local-name="Greek" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ελληνικά</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cupido" title="Cupido – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Cupido" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eo mw-list-item"><a href="https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amoro_(dio)" title="Amoro (dio) – Esperanto" lang="eo" hreflang="eo" data-title="Amoro (dio)" data-language-autonym="Esperanto" data-language-local-name="Esperanto" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Esperanto</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eu mw-list-item"><a href="https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kupido" title="Kupido – Basque" lang="eu" hreflang="eu" data-title="Kupido" data-language-autonym="Euskara" data-language-local-name="Basque" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Euskara</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%A9%D9%88%D9%BE%DB%8C%D8%AF%D9%88" title="کوپیدو – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="کوپیدو" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cupidon" title="Cupidon – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Cupidon" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ga mw-list-item"><a href="https://ga.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%C3%BAipid" title="Cúipid – Irish" lang="ga" hreflang="ga" data-title="Cúipid" data-language-autonym="Gaeilge" data-language-local-name="Irish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Gaeilge</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gl mw-list-item"><a href="https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cupido" title="Cupido – Galician" lang="gl" hreflang="gl" data-title="Cupido" data-language-autonym="Galego" data-language-local-name="Galician" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Galego</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%ED%81%90%ED%94%BC%EB%93%9C" title="큐피드 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="큐피드" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>한국어</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hi mw-list-item"><a href="https://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%95%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%AF%E0%A5%82%E0%A4%AA%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%A1" title="क्यूपिड – Hindi" lang="hi" hreflang="hi" data-title="क्यूपिड" data-language-autonym="हिन्दी" data-language-local-name="Hindi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>हिन्दी</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hr mw-list-item"><a href="https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kupid" title="Kupid – Croatian" lang="hr" hreflang="hr" data-title="Kupid" data-language-autonym="Hrvatski" data-language-local-name="Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Hrvatski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kupido" title="Kupido – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="Kupido" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Indonesia</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ia mw-list-item"><a href="https://ia.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cupido" title="Cupido – Interlingua" lang="ia" hreflang="ia" data-title="Cupido" data-language-autonym="Interlingua" data-language-local-name="Interlingua" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Interlingua</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-is mw-list-item"><a href="https://is.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C3%BAp%C3%ADd%C3%B3" title="Kúpídó – Icelandic" lang="is" hreflang="is" data-title="Kúpídó" data-language-autonym="Íslenska" data-language-local-name="Icelandic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Íslenska</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cupido" title="Cupido – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Cupido" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-he mw-list-item"><a href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A7%D7%95%D7%A4%D7%99%D7%93%D7%95%D7%9F" title="קופידון – Hebrew" lang="he" hreflang="he" data-title="קופידון" data-language-autonym="עברית" data-language-local-name="Hebrew" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>עברית</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ka mw-list-item"><a href="https://ka.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%83%99%E1%83%A3%E1%83%9E%E1%83%98%E1%83%93%E1%83%9D%E1%83%9C%E1%83%98" title="კუპიდონი – Georgian" lang="ka" hreflang="ka" data-title="კუპიდონი" data-language-autonym="ქართული" data-language-local-name="Georgian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ქართული</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-la mw-list-item"><a href="https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amor_(deus)" title="Amor (deus) – Latin" lang="la" hreflang="la" data-title="Amor (deus)" data-language-autonym="Latina" data-language-local-name="Latin" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Latina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lt mw-list-item"><a href="https://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kupidonas" title="Kupidonas – Lithuanian" lang="lt" hreflang="lt" data-title="Kupidonas" data-language-autonym="Lietuvių" data-language-local-name="Lithuanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Lietuvių</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lmo mw-list-item"><a href="https://lmo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cupid" title="Cupid – Lombard" lang="lmo" hreflang="lmo" data-title="Cupid" data-language-autonym="Lombard" data-language-local-name="Lombard" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Lombard</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hu mw-list-item"><a href="https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amor" title="Amor – Hungarian" lang="hu" hreflang="hu" data-title="Amor" data-language-autonym="Magyar" data-language-local-name="Hungarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Magyar</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mk mw-list-item"><a href="https://mk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D1%83%D0%BF%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%BE%D0%BD" title="Купидон – Macedonian" lang="mk" hreflang="mk" data-title="Купидон" data-language-autonym="Македонски" data-language-local-name="Macedonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Македонски</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mr mw-list-item"><a href="https://mr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%95%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%AF%E0%A5%82%E0%A4%AA%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%A1" title="क्यूपिड – Marathi" lang="mr" hreflang="mr" data-title="क्यूपिड" data-language-autonym="मराठी" data-language-local-name="Marathi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>मराठी</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-arz mw-list-item"><a href="https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%88%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%AF" title="كيوبيد – Egyptian Arabic" lang="arz" hreflang="arz" data-title="كيوبيد" data-language-autonym="مصرى" data-language-local-name="Egyptian Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>مصرى</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cupido_(mythologie)" title="Cupido (mythologie) – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title="Cupido (mythologie)" data-language-autonym="Nederlands" data-language-local-name="Dutch" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Nederlands</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ja mw-list-item"><a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%AF%E3%83%94%E3%83%BC%E3%83%89%E3%83%BC" title="クピードー – Japanese" lang="ja" hreflang="ja" data-title="クピードー" data-language-autonym="日本語" data-language-local-name="Japanese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>日本語</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nn mw-list-item"><a href="https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amor" title="Amor – Norwegian Nynorsk" lang="nn" hreflang="nn" data-title="Amor" data-language-autonym="Norsk nynorsk" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Nynorsk" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk nynorsk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-oc mw-list-item"><a href="https://oc.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cupidon" title="Cupidon – Occitan" lang="oc" hreflang="oc" data-title="Cupidon" 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#F0ACAC;">Cupid</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-subheader"><div style="font-size: 110%;">God of desire, erotic love, attraction, and affection</div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:Eros_bow_Musei_Capitolini_MC410.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b7/Eros_bow_Musei_Capitolini_MC410.jpg/220px-Eros_bow_Musei_Capitolini_MC410.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="293" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b7/Eros_bow_Musei_Capitolini_MC410.jpg/330px-Eros_bow_Musei_Capitolini_MC410.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b7/Eros_bow_Musei_Capitolini_MC410.jpg/440px-Eros_bow_Musei_Capitolini_MC410.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2541" data-file-height="3388" /></a></span><div class="infobox-caption"><a href="/wiki/Classical_Greece" title="Classical Greece">Classical</a> 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href="/wiki/Broken_heart" title="Broken heart">Broken heart</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Compassionate_love" title="Compassionate love">Compassionate love</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Conjugal_love" title="Conjugal love">Conjugal love</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Courtly_love" title="Courtly love">Courtly love</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Courtship" title="Courtship">courtship</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Troubadour" title="Troubadour">troubadours</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Falling_in_love" title="Falling in love">Falling in love</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Friendship" title="Friendship">Friendship</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Cross-sex_friendship" title="Cross-sex friendship">cross-sex</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Romantic_friendship" title="Romantic friendship">romantic</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Friend_zone" title="Friend zone">zone</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Interpersonal_attraction" title="Interpersonal attraction">Interpersonal attraction</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Interpersonal_relationship" title="Interpersonal relationship">Interpersonal relationship</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Intimate_relationship" title="Intimate relationship">Intimacy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Limerence" title="Limerence">Limerence</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Love_addiction" title="Love addiction">Love addiction</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Love_at_first_sight" title="Love at first sight">Love at first sight</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Love_triangle" title="Love triangle">Love triangle</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lovesickness" title="Lovesickness">Lovesickness</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lovestruck" title="Lovestruck">Lovestruck</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Passion_(emotion)" title="Passion (emotion)">Passion</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Passionate_and_companionate_love" title="Passionate and companionate love">Passionate and companionate love</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Platonic_love" title="Platonic love">Platonic love</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Puppy_love" title="Puppy love">Puppy love</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Queerplatonic_relationship" title="Queerplatonic relationship">Queerplatonic relationship</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Romance_(love)" title="Romance (love)">Romance</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Self-love" title="Self-love">Self-love</a> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Amour_de_soi" title="Amour de soi">Amour de soi</a></i></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Unconditional_love" title="Unconditional love">Unconditional love</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Unrequited_love" title="Unrequited love">Unrequited love</a></li></ul></div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="border-top:1px solid #cee0f2;background:none;text-align:center;;color: var(--color-base)">Social views</div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content hlist"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Anarchism_and_issues_related_to_love_and_sex" title="Anarchism and issues related 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lang="grc"><a href="/wiki/Eros_(concept)" title="Eros (concept)">Eros</a></i></span></li> <li><span title="Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text"><i lang="grc"><a href="/wiki/Color_wheel_theory_of_love#Ludus" class="mw-redirect" title="Color wheel theory of love">Ludus</a></i></span></li> <li><span title="Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text"><i lang="grc"><a href="/wiki/Color_wheel_theory_of_love#Mania" class="mw-redirect" title="Color wheel theory of love">Mania</a></i></span></li> <li><span title="Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text"><i lang="grc"><a href="/wiki/Self-love" title="Self-love">Philautia</a></i></span></li> <li><span title="Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text"><i lang="grc"><a href="/wiki/Philia" title="Philia">Philia</a></i></span></li> <li><span title="Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text"><i lang="grc"><a href="/wiki/Trust_(social_science)" title="Trust (social science)">Philos</a></i></span></li> <li><span title="Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text"><i 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class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content hlist"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Color_wheel_theory_of_love" class="mw-redirect" title="Color wheel theory of love">Color wheel theory of love</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bhakti_yoga" title="Bhakti yoga">Bhakti yoga</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Biology_of_romantic_love" title="Biology of romantic love">Biology of romantic love</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Love_letter" title="Love letter">Love letter</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Love_of_Christ" title="Love of Christ">Love of Christ</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Love_of_God" title="Love of God">Love of God</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Love_of_God_in_Christianity" title="Love of God in Christianity">in Christianity</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Love_magic" title="Love magic">Love magic</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Valentine%27s_Day" title="Valentine's Day">Valentine's Day</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Philosophy_of_love" title="Philosophy of love">Philosophy</a></li> <li><a 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.navbar-collapse{float:left;text-align:left}.mw-parser-output .navbar-boxtext{word-spacing:0}.mw-parser-output .navbar ul{display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;line-height:inherit}.mw-parser-output .navbar-brackets::before{margin-right:-0.125em;content:"[ "}.mw-parser-output .navbar-brackets::after{margin-left:-0.125em;content:" ]"}.mw-parser-output .navbar li{word-spacing:-0.125em}.mw-parser-output .navbar a>span,.mw-parser-output .navbar a>abbr{text-decoration:inherit}.mw-parser-output .navbar-mini abbr{font-variant:small-caps;border-bottom:none;text-decoration:none;cursor:inherit}.mw-parser-output .navbar-ct-full{font-size:114%;margin:0 7em}.mw-parser-output .navbar-ct-mini{font-size:114%;margin:0 4em}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .navbar li a abbr{color:var(--color-base)!important}@media(prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .navbar li a abbr{color:var(--color-base)!important}}@media print{.mw-parser-output .navbar{display:none!important}}</style><div class="navbar plainlinks hlist navbar-mini"><ul><li class="nv-view"><a href="/wiki/Template:Love_sidebar" title="Template:Love sidebar"><abbr title="View this template">v</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-talk"><a href="/wiki/Template_talk:Love_sidebar" title="Template talk:Love sidebar"><abbr title="Discuss this template">t</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-edit"><a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/Template:Love_sidebar" title="Special:EditPage/Template:Love sidebar"><abbr title="Edit this template">e</abbr></a></li></ul></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>In <a href="/wiki/Classical_mythology" title="Classical mythology">classical mythology</a>, <b>Cupid</b> <span class="rt-commentedText nowrap"><span class="IPA nopopups noexcerpt" lang="en-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/<span style="border-bottom:1px dotted"><span title="/ˈ/: primary stress follows">ˈ</span><span title="'k' in 'kind'">k</span><span title="/j/: 'y' in 'yes'">j</span><span title="/uː/: 'oo' in 'goose'">uː</span><span title="'p' in 'pie'">p</span><span title="/ɪ/: 'i' in 'kit'">ɪ</span><span title="'d' in 'dye'">d</span></span>/</a></span></span> (<a href="/wiki/Latin_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Latin language">Latin</a>: <i lang="la">Cupīdō</i> <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="la-Latn-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/Latin" title="Help:IPA/Latin">[kʊˈpiːdoː]</a></span>, meaning "passionate desire") is the god of desire, <a href="/wiki/Lust" title="Lust">erotic love</a>, attraction and affection. He is often portrayed as the son of the love goddess <a href="/wiki/Venus_(mythology)" title="Venus (mythology)">Venus</a> and the god of war <a href="/wiki/Mars_(mythology)" title="Mars (mythology)">Mars</a>. He is also known as <b>Amor</b> <span class="rt-commentedText nowrap"><span class="IPA nopopups noexcerpt" lang="en-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/<span style="border-bottom:1px dotted"><span title="/ˈ/: primary stress follows">ˈ</span><span title="/ɑː/: 'a' in 'father'">ɑː</span><span title="'m' in 'my'">m</span><span title="/ɔːr/: 'ar' in 'war'">ɔːr</span></span>/</a></span></span> (Latin: <i><span title="Latin-language text"><i lang="la">Amor</i></span></i>, "love"). His <a href="/wiki/Interpretatio_graeca" title="Interpretatio graeca">Greek counterpart</a> is <a href="/wiki/Eros" title="Eros">Eros</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Lar_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Lar-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Although Eros is generally portrayed as a slender winged youth in <a href="/wiki/Classical_Greece" title="Classical Greece">Classical</a> <a href="/wiki/Ancient_Greek_art" title="Ancient Greek art">Greek art</a>, during the <a href="/wiki/Hellenistic_period" title="Hellenistic period">Hellenistic period</a>, he was increasingly portrayed as a chubby boy. During this time, his iconography acquired the <a href="/wiki/Bow_and_arrow" title="Bow and arrow">bow and arrow</a> that represent his source of power: a person, or even a deity, who is shot by Cupid's arrow is filled with uncontrollable desire. In myths, Cupid is a minor character who serves mostly to set the plot in motion. He is a main character only in the tale of <a href="/wiki/Cupid_and_Psyche" title="Cupid and Psyche">Cupid and Psyche</a>, when wounded by his own weapons, he experiences the ordeal of love. Although other extended stories are not told about him, his tradition is rich in poetic themes and visual scenarios, such as "Love conquers all" and the retaliatory punishment or torture of Cupid. </p><p>In art, Cupid often appears in multiples as the <b>Amores</b> <span class="rt-commentedText nowrap"><span class="IPA nopopups noexcerpt" lang="en-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/<span style="border-bottom:1px dotted"><span title="/ə/: 'a' in 'about'">ə</span><span title="/ˈ/: primary stress follows">ˈ</span><span title="'m' in 'my'">m</span><span title="/ɔː/: 'au' in 'fraud'">ɔː</span><span title="'r' in 'rye'">r</span><span title="/iː/: 'ee' in 'fleece'">iː</span><span title="'z' in 'zoom'">z</span></span>/</a></span></span> (in the later terminology of <a href="/wiki/Art_history" title="Art history">art history</a>, Italian <i><span title="Italian-language text"><i lang="it">amorini</i></span></i>), the equivalent of the Greek <a href="/wiki/Erotes_(mythology)" class="mw-redirect" title="Erotes (mythology)">Erotes</a>. Cupids are a frequent motif of both <a href="/wiki/Ancient_Roman_art" class="mw-redirect" title="Ancient Roman art">Roman art</a> and later <a href="/wiki/Western_art" class="mw-redirect" title="Western art">Western art</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Classical_tradition" title="Classical tradition">classical tradition</a>. In the 15th century, the iconography of Cupid starts to become indistinguishable from the <a href="/wiki/Putto" title="Putto">putto</a>. </p><p>Cupid continued to be a popular figure in the <a href="/wiki/Middle_Ages" title="Middle Ages">Middle Ages</a>, when under Christian influence he often had a dual nature as Heavenly and Earthly love. In the <a href="/wiki/Renaissance" title="Renaissance">Renaissance</a>, a renewed interest in classical philosophy endowed him with complex <a href="/wiki/Allegory" title="Allegory">allegorical</a> meanings. In contemporary popular culture, Cupid is shown drawing his bow to inspire romantic love, often as an icon of <a href="/wiki/Valentine%27s_Day" title="Valentine's Day">Valentine's Day</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Cupid's powers are similar, though not identical, to <a href="/wiki/Kamadeva" title="Kamadeva">Kamadeva</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Hindu" class="mw-redirect" title="Hindu">Hindu</a> god of human love. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Etymology">Etymology</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Cupid&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Etymology"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The name <i>Cupīdō</i> ('passionate desire') is a derivative of <a href="/wiki/Latin" title="Latin">Latin</a> <i>cupiō</i>, <i>cupĕre</i> ('to desire'), itself from <a href="/wiki/Proto-Italic_language" title="Proto-Italic language">Proto-Italic</a> <i>*kup-i-</i>, which may reflect <i>*kup-ei-</i> ('to desire'; cf. <a href="/wiki/Umbrian_language" title="Umbrian language">Umbrian</a> <i>cupras</i>, <a href="/wiki/South_Picene_language" title="South Picene language">South Picene</a> <i>kuprí</i>). The latter ultimately stems from the <a href="/wiki/Proto-Indo-European_language" title="Proto-Indo-European language">Proto-Indo-European</a> verbal stem <i>*kup-(e)i-</i> ('to tremble, desire'; cf. <a href="/wiki/Old_Irish" title="Old Irish">Old Irish</a> <i>accobor</i> 'desire', <a href="/wiki/Sanskrit" title="Sanskrit">Sanskrit</a> <i>prá-kupita</i>- 'trembling, quaking', <a href="/wiki/Old_Church_Slavonic" title="Old Church Slavonic">Old Church Slavonic</a> <i>kypĕti</i> 'to simmer, boil').<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEde_Vaan2008155_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEde_Vaan2008155-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Origins_and_birth">Origins and birth</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Cupid&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Origins and birth"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Duquesnoy_Cupid_prewar_photo.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/80/Duquesnoy_Cupid_prewar_photo.jpg/170px-Duquesnoy_Cupid_prewar_photo.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="245" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/80/Duquesnoy_Cupid_prewar_photo.jpg/255px-Duquesnoy_Cupid_prewar_photo.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/80/Duquesnoy_Cupid_prewar_photo.jpg/340px-Duquesnoy_Cupid_prewar_photo.jpg 2x" data-file-width="880" data-file-height="1270" /></a><figcaption><i><a href="/wiki/Cupid_Carving_His_Bow" title="Cupid Carving His Bow">Cupid Carving His Bow</a></i> (1620s) by <a href="/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_Duquesnoy" title="François Duquesnoy">François Duquesnoy</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bode_Museum" title="Bode Museum">Bode Museum</a>, Berlin</figcaption></figure> <p>The Romans <a href="/wiki/Interpretatio_graeca" title="Interpretatio graeca">reinterpreted</a> myths and concepts pertaining to the Greek Eros for Cupid in their own literature and art, and medieval and Renaissance mythographers <a href="/wiki/Conflation" title="Conflation">conflate</a> the two freely. In the Greek tradition, Eros had a dual, contradictory genealogy. He was among the <a href="/wiki/Greek_primordial_gods" class="mw-redirect" title="Greek primordial gods">primordial gods</a> who came into existence asexually; after his generation, deities were begotten through male-female unions.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In <a href="/wiki/Hesiod" title="Hesiod">Hesiod</a>'s <i>Theogony</i>, only <a href="/wiki/Chaos_(cosmogony)" title="Chaos (cosmogony)">Chaos</a> and <a href="/wiki/Gaia_(mythology)" class="mw-redirect" title="Gaia (mythology)">Gaia</a> (Earth) are older. Before the existence of gender dichotomy, Eros functioned by causing entities to separate from themselves that which they already contained.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>At the same time, the Eros who was pictured as a boy or slim youth was regarded as the child of a divine couple, the identity of whom varied by source. The influential Renaissance mythographer <a href="/wiki/Natale_Conti" class="mw-redirect" title="Natale Conti">Natale Conti</a> began his chapter on Cupid/Eros by declaring that the Greeks themselves were unsure about his parentage: Heaven and Earth,<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Ares" title="Ares">Ares</a> and <a href="/wiki/Aphrodite" title="Aphrodite">Aphrodite</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Nyx" title="Nyx">Night</a> and <a href="/wiki/Aether_(mythology)" title="Aether (mythology)">Ether</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> or the <a href="/wiki/Iris_(mythology)" title="Iris (mythology)">Rainbow</a> and <a href="/wiki/Zephyros" class="mw-redirect" title="Zephyros">Zephyr</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Greek travel writer <a href="/wiki/Pausanias_(geographer)" title="Pausanias (geographer)">Pausanias</a>, he notes, contradicts himself by saying at one point that Eros welcomed Aphrodite into the world, and at another that Eros was the son of Aphrodite and the youngest of the gods.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In <a href="/wiki/Latin_literature" title="Latin literature">Latin literature</a>, Cupid is usually treated as the son of Venus without reference to a father. <a href="/wiki/Seneca_the_Younger" title="Seneca the Younger">Seneca</a> says that <a href="/wiki/Volcanus" class="mw-redirect" title="Volcanus">Vulcan</a>, as the husband of Venus, is the father of Cupid.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Cicero" title="Cicero">Cicero</a>, however, says that there were three Cupids, as well as three Venuses: the first Cupid was the son of <a href="/wiki/Mercury_(mythology)" title="Mercury (mythology)">Mercury</a> and <a href="/wiki/Diana_(mythology)" title="Diana (mythology)">Diana</a>, the second of Mercury and the second Venus, and the third of <a href="/wiki/Mars_(mythology)" title="Mars (mythology)">Mars</a> and the third Venus. This last Cupid was the equivalent of <a href="/wiki/Anteros" title="Anteros">Anteros</a>, "Counter-Love", one of the <a href="/wiki/Erotes_(mythology)" class="mw-redirect" title="Erotes (mythology)">Erotes</a>, the gods who embody aspects of love.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The multiple Cupids frolicking in art are the decorative manifestation of these proliferating loves and desires. During the <a href="/wiki/English_Renaissance" title="English Renaissance">English Renaissance</a>, <a href="/wiki/Christopher_Marlowe" title="Christopher Marlowe">Christopher Marlowe</a> wrote of "ten thousand Cupids"; in <a href="/wiki/Ben_Jonson" title="Ben Jonson">Ben Jonson</a>'s wedding <a href="/wiki/Masque" title="Masque">masque</a> <i><a href="/wiki/Hymenaei" title="Hymenaei">Hymenaei</a></i>, "a thousand several-coloured loves ... hop about the nuptial room".<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In the later <a href="/wiki/Classical_tradition" title="Classical tradition">classical tradition</a>, Cupid is most often regarded as the son of Venus and Mars, whose love affair represented an <a href="/wiki/Allegory" title="Allegory">allegory</a> of Love and War.<sup id="cite_ref-Cupid-p244_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Cupid-p244-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The duality between the primordial and the sexually conceived Eros accommodated philosophical concepts of Heavenly and Earthly Love even in the Christian era.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Attributes_and_themes">Attributes and themes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Cupid&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Attributes and themes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Piero_della_Francesca_-_Cupid_Blindfolded_-_WGA17587.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7f/Piero_della_Francesca_-_Cupid_Blindfolded_-_WGA17587.jpg/170px-Piero_della_Francesca_-_Cupid_Blindfolded_-_WGA17587.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="219" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7f/Piero_della_Francesca_-_Cupid_Blindfolded_-_WGA17587.jpg/255px-Piero_della_Francesca_-_Cupid_Blindfolded_-_WGA17587.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7f/Piero_della_Francesca_-_Cupid_Blindfolded_-_WGA17587.jpg/340px-Piero_della_Francesca_-_Cupid_Blindfolded_-_WGA17587.jpg 2x" data-file-width="789" data-file-height="1018" /></a><figcaption>A blindfolded, armed Cupid (1452/66) by <a href="/wiki/Piero_della_Francesca" title="Piero della Francesca">Piero della Francesca</a></figcaption></figure> <p>Cupid is winged, allegedly because lovers are flighty and likely to change their minds, and boyish because love is irrational. His symbols are the arrow and torch, "because love wounds and inflames the heart". These attributes and their interpretation were established by late antiquity, as summarized by <a href="/wiki/Isidore_of_Seville" title="Isidore of Seville">Isidore of Seville</a> (d. 636 AD) in his <i><a href="/wiki/Etymologiae" title="Etymologiae">Etymologiae</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Cupid is also sometimes depicted blindfolded and described as blind, not so much in the sense of sightless—since the sight of the beloved can be a spur to love—as blinkered and arbitrary. As described by <a href="/wiki/Shakespeare" class="mw-redirect" title="Shakespeare">Shakespeare</a> in <i><a href="/wiki/A_Midsummer_Night%27s_Dream" title="A Midsummer Night's Dream">A Midsummer Night's Dream</a></i> (1590s):<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1244412712">.mw-parser-output .templatequote{overflow:hidden;margin:1em 0;padding:0 32px}.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;margin-top:0}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{padding-left:1.6em}}</style><blockquote class="templatequote"><div class="poem"> <p>Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind<br /> And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.<br /> Nor hath love's mind of any judgement taste;<br /> Wings and no eyes figure unheedy haste.<br /> And therefore is love said to be a child<br /> Because in choice he is so oft beguiled.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> </div></blockquote> <p>In <a href="/wiki/Botticelli" class="mw-redirect" title="Botticelli">Botticelli</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/Primavera_(painting)" class="mw-redirect" title="Primavera (painting)">Allegory of Spring</a></i> (1482), also known by its Italian title <i>La Primavera</i>, Cupid is shown blindfolded while shooting his arrow, positioned above the central figure of Venus.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Particularly in ancient Roman art, cupids may also carry or be surrounded by fruits, animals, or attributes of the <a href="/wiki/Horae" title="Horae">Seasons</a> or the wine-god <a href="/wiki/Dionysus" title="Dionysus">Dionysus</a>, symbolizing the earth's generative capacity.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Having all these associations, Cupid is considered to share parallels with the Hindu god <a href="/wiki/Kamadeva" title="Kamadeva">Kama</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <ul class="gallery mw-gallery-packed"> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 130.66666666667px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 128.66666666667px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Edme_Bouchardon,_Cupid,_1744,_NGA_41708.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Edme Bouchardon, Cupid, 1744, National Gallery of Art"><img alt="Edme Bouchardon, Cupid, 1744, National Gallery of Art" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/57/Edme_Bouchardon%2C_Cupid%2C_1744%2C_NGA_41708.jpg/193px-Edme_Bouchardon%2C_Cupid%2C_1744%2C_NGA_41708.jpg" decoding="async" width="129" height="200" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/57/Edme_Bouchardon%2C_Cupid%2C_1744%2C_NGA_41708.jpg/290px-Edme_Bouchardon%2C_Cupid%2C_1744%2C_NGA_41708.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/57/Edme_Bouchardon%2C_Cupid%2C_1744%2C_NGA_41708.jpg/387px-Edme_Bouchardon%2C_Cupid%2C_1744%2C_NGA_41708.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1934" data-file-height="3000" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"><a href="/wiki/Edme_Bouchardon" class="mw-redirect" title="Edme Bouchardon">Edme Bouchardon</a>, Cupid, 1744, <a href="/wiki/National_Gallery_of_Art" title="National Gallery of Art">National Gallery of Art</a></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 152px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Bertel_Thorvaldsen_-_Cupid.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Cupid sculpture by Bertel Thorvaldsen"><img alt="Cupid sculpture by Bertel Thorvaldsen" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8f/Bertel_Thorvaldsen_-_Cupid.jpg/225px-Bertel_Thorvaldsen_-_Cupid.jpg" decoding="async" width="150" height="200" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8f/Bertel_Thorvaldsen_-_Cupid.jpg/337px-Bertel_Thorvaldsen_-_Cupid.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8f/Bertel_Thorvaldsen_-_Cupid.jpg/450px-Bertel_Thorvaldsen_-_Cupid.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2672" data-file-height="3563" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Cupid sculpture by <a href="/wiki/Bertel_Thorvaldsen" title="Bertel Thorvaldsen">Bertel Thorvaldsen</a></div> </li> </ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Cupid's_arrows"><span id="Cupid.27s_arrows"></span>Cupid's arrows</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Cupid&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Cupid's arrows"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Roman_de_la_Rose_f._13r_(The_god_of_love_shoots_an_arrow_at_the_lover).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3b/Roman_de_la_Rose_f._13r_%28The_god_of_love_shoots_an_arrow_at_the_lover%29.jpg/220px-Roman_de_la_Rose_f._13r_%28The_god_of_love_shoots_an_arrow_at_the_lover%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="152" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3b/Roman_de_la_Rose_f._13r_%28The_god_of_love_shoots_an_arrow_at_the_lover%29.jpg/330px-Roman_de_la_Rose_f._13r_%28The_god_of_love_shoots_an_arrow_at_the_lover%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3b/Roman_de_la_Rose_f._13r_%28The_god_of_love_shoots_an_arrow_at_the_lover%29.jpg/440px-Roman_de_la_Rose_f._13r_%28The_god_of_love_shoots_an_arrow_at_the_lover%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2500" data-file-height="1724" /></a><figcaption>The god of love (Cupid) shoots an arrow at the lover, from a 14th-century text of the <span title="Old French (842-ca. 1400)-language text"><i lang="fro"><a href="/wiki/Roman_de_la_Rose" title="Roman de la Rose">Roman de la Rose</a></i></span>.</figcaption></figure> <p>Cupid carries two kinds of arrows, or darts, one with a sharp golden point, and the other with a blunt tip of lead. A person wounded by the golden arrow is filled with uncontrollable desire, but the one struck by the lead feels aversion and desires only to flee. The use of these arrows is described by the <a href="/wiki/Augustan_literature_(ancient_Rome)" title="Augustan literature (ancient Rome)">Latin poet</a> <a href="/wiki/Ovid" title="Ovid">Ovid</a> in the first book of his <i><a href="/wiki/Metamorphoses" title="Metamorphoses">Metamorphoses</a></i>. When <a href="/wiki/Apollo" title="Apollo">Apollo</a> taunts Cupid as the lesser archer, Cupid shoots him with the golden arrow, but strikes the object of his desire, the nymph <a href="/wiki/Daphne_(mythology)" class="mw-redirect" title="Daphne (mythology)">Daphne</a>, with the lead. Trapped by Apollo's unwanted advances, Daphne prays to her father, the river god <a href="/wiki/Peneus" title="Peneus">Peneus</a>, who turns her into a laurel, the tree sacred to Apollo. It is the first of several unsuccessful or tragic love affairs for Apollo.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This theme is somewhat mirrored in the story of <a href="/wiki/Echo_and_Narcissus" title="Echo and Narcissus">Echo and Narcissus</a>, as the goddess <a href="/wiki/Juno_(mythology)" title="Juno (mythology)">Juno</a> forces the nymph Echo's love upon Narcissus, who is cursed by the goddess <a href="/wiki/Nemesis" title="Nemesis">Nemesis</a> to be self absorbed and unresponsive to her desires. <sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>A variation is found in <i><a href="/wiki/The_Kingis_Quair" title="The Kingis Quair">The Kingis Quair</a></i>, a 15th-century poem attributed to <a href="/wiki/James_I_of_Scotland" title="James I of Scotland">James I of Scotland</a>, in which Cupid has three arrows: gold, for a gentle "smiting" that is easily cured; the more compelling silver; and steel, for a love-wound that never heals.<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Cupid_and_the_bees">Cupid and the bees</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Cupid&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Cupid and the bees"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Cranach,_Cupid_Complaining_to_Venus.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cb/Cranach%2C_Cupid_Complaining_to_Venus.jpg/170px-Cranach%2C_Cupid_Complaining_to_Venus.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="245" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cb/Cranach%2C_Cupid_Complaining_to_Venus.jpg/255px-Cranach%2C_Cupid_Complaining_to_Venus.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cb/Cranach%2C_Cupid_Complaining_to_Venus.jpg/340px-Cranach%2C_Cupid_Complaining_to_Venus.jpg 2x" data-file-width="780" data-file-height="1123" /></a><figcaption><i>Cupid the Honey Thief</i>, by <a href="/wiki/Lucas_Cranach_the_Elder" title="Lucas Cranach the Elder">Lucas Cranach the Elder</a></figcaption></figure> <p>In the tale of Cupid the honey thief, the child-god is stung by bees when he steals honey from their hive. He cries and runs to his mother Venus,<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> complaining that so small a creature should not cause such painful wounds. Venus laughs, and points out the poetic justice: he too is small, and yet delivers the sting of love. </p><p>The story was first told about Eros in the <a href="/wiki/Idyll_XIX" title="Idyll XIX">nineteenth <i>Idyll</i></a> of <a href="/wiki/Theocritus" title="Theocritus">Theocritus</a> (3rd century BC).<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It was retold numerous times in both art and poetry during the Renaissance. The theme brought the <i><a href="/wiki/Amoretti" title="Amoretti">Amoretti</a></i> poetry cycle (1595) of <a href="/wiki/Edmund_Spenser" title="Edmund Spenser">Edmund Spenser</a> to a conclusion,<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and furnished subject matter for at least twenty works by <a href="/wiki/Lucas_Cranach_the_Elder" title="Lucas Cranach the Elder">Lucas Cranach the Elder</a> and his workshop.<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The German poet and classicist <a href="/wiki/Karl_Philipp_Conz" title="Karl Philipp Conz">Karl Philipp Conz</a> (1762–1827) framed the tale as <i><a href="/wiki/Schadenfreude" title="Schadenfreude">Schadenfreude</a></i> ("taking pleasure in someone else's pain") in a poem by the same title.<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In a version by <a href="/wiki/Gotthold_Ephraim_Lessing" title="Gotthold Ephraim Lessing">Gotthold Ephraim Lessing</a>, a writer of the <a href="/wiki/German_Enlightenment" class="mw-redirect" title="German Enlightenment">German Enlightenment</a>, the incident prompts Cupid to turn himself into a bee: </p> <blockquote><p>Through this sting was Amor made wiser.<br />The untiring deceiver<br />concocted another battle-plan:<br />he lurked beneath the carnations and roses<br />and when a maiden came to pick them,<br />he flew out as a bee and stung her.<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></blockquote> <p>The image of Cupid as a bee is part of a complex tradition of poetic imagery involving the flower of youth, the sting of love as a deflowering, and honey as a secretion of love.<sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Cupid_and_dolphins">Cupid and dolphins</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Cupid&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Cupid and dolphins"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Erasmus_Quellinus_(II)-_Cupido_navegando_sobre_un_delf%C3%ADn,_1630.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/Erasmus_Quellinus_%28II%29-_Cupido_navegando_sobre_un_delf%C3%ADn%2C_1630.jpg/220px-Erasmus_Quellinus_%28II%29-_Cupido_navegando_sobre_un_delf%C3%ADn%2C_1630.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="216" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/Erasmus_Quellinus_%28II%29-_Cupido_navegando_sobre_un_delf%C3%ADn%2C_1630.jpg/330px-Erasmus_Quellinus_%28II%29-_Cupido_navegando_sobre_un_delf%C3%ADn%2C_1630.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/Erasmus_Quellinus_%28II%29-_Cupido_navegando_sobre_un_delf%C3%ADn%2C_1630.jpg/440px-Erasmus_Quellinus_%28II%29-_Cupido_navegando_sobre_un_delf%C3%ADn%2C_1630.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3111" data-file-height="3051" /></a><figcaption><i>Cupid Riding on a Dolphin</i> (1630) by <a href="/wiki/Erasmus_Quellinus_II" class="mw-redirect" title="Erasmus Quellinus II">Erasmus Quellinus II</a></figcaption></figure> <p>In both ancient and later art, Cupid is often shown riding a <a href="/wiki/Dolphin" title="Dolphin">dolphin</a>. On <a href="/wiki/Ancient_Roman_sarcophagi" title="Ancient Roman sarcophagi">ancient Roman sarcophagi</a>, the image may represent the soul's journey, originally associated with <a href="/wiki/Dionysian_mysteries" class="mw-redirect" title="Dionysian mysteries">Dionysian religion</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A mosaic from late <a href="/wiki/Roman_Britain" title="Roman Britain">Roman Britain</a> shows a procession emerging from the mouth of the sea god <a href="/wiki/Neptune_(mythology)" title="Neptune (mythology)">Neptune</a>, first dolphins and then sea birds, ascending to Cupid. One interpretation of this allegory is that Neptune represents the soul's origin in the matter from which life was fashioned, with Cupid triumphing as the soul's desired destiny.<sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In other contexts, Cupid with a dolphin recurs as a playful motif, as in garden statuary at <a href="/wiki/Pompeii" title="Pompeii">Pompeii</a> that shows a dolphin rescuing Cupid from an octopus, or Cupid holding a dolphin. The dolphin, often elaborated fantastically, might be constructed as a spout for a fountain.<sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On a modern-era fountain in the <a href="/wiki/Palazzo_Vecchio" title="Palazzo Vecchio">Palazzo Vecchio</a>, <a href="/wiki/Florence,_Italy" class="mw-redirect" title="Florence, Italy">Florence, Italy</a>, Cupid seems to be strangling a dolphin.<sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Dolphins were often portrayed in antiquity as friendly to humans, and the dolphin itself could represent affection. <a href="/wiki/Pliny_the_Elder" title="Pliny the Elder">Pliny</a> records a tale of a dolphin at <a href="/wiki/Puteoli" class="mw-redirect" title="Puteoli">Puteoli</a> carrying a boy on its back across a lake to go to school each day; when the boy died, the dolphin grieved itself to death.<sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In erotic scenes from mythology, Cupid riding the dolphin may convey how swiftly love moves,<sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> or the Cupid astride a sea beast may be a reassuring presence for the wild ride of love.<sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A dolphin-riding Cupid may attend scenes depicting the wedding of Neptune and <a href="/wiki/Amphitrite" title="Amphitrite">Amphitrite</a> or the Triumph of Neptune, also known as a marine <i><a href="/wiki/Thiasos" class="mw-redirect" title="Thiasos">thiasos</a></i>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Demon_of_fornication">Demon of fornication</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Cupid&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Demon of fornication"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>To adapt myths for Christian use, medieval mythographers interpreted them morally. In this view, Cupid is seen as a "demon of <a href="/wiki/Fornication" title="Fornication">fornication</a>".<sup id="cite_ref-39" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The innovative <a href="/wiki/Theodulf_of_Orleans" class="mw-redirect" title="Theodulf of Orleans">Theodulf of Orleans</a>, who wrote during the reign of <a href="/wiki/Charlemagne" title="Charlemagne">Charlemagne</a>, reinterpreted Cupid as a seductive but malicious figure who exploits desire to draw people into an allegorical underworld of vice.<sup id="cite_ref-40" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> To Theodulf, Cupid's quiver symbolized his depraved mind, his bow trickery, his arrows poison, and his torch burning passion. It was appropriate to portray him naked, so as not to conceal his deception and evil.<sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This conception largely followed his attachments to lust, but would later be diluted as many Christians embraced Cupid as a symbolic representation of love. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Sleeping_Cupid">Sleeping Cupid</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Cupid&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Sleeping Cupid"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:WLA_vanda_Sleeping_Cupid.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/WLA_vanda_Sleeping_Cupid.jpg/300px-WLA_vanda_Sleeping_Cupid.jpg" decoding="async" width="300" height="159" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/WLA_vanda_Sleeping_Cupid.jpg/450px-WLA_vanda_Sleeping_Cupid.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/WLA_vanda_Sleeping_Cupid.jpg/600px-WLA_vanda_Sleeping_Cupid.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3583" data-file-height="1901" /></a><figcaption>Bronze <i>Cupid Sleeping</i> on a lion skin (1635–40), signed <i>F,</i> based on the marble attributed to <a href="/wiki/Praxiteles" title="Praxiteles">Praxiteles</a></figcaption></figure> <p>Cupid sleeping became a symbol of absent or languishing love in Renaissance poetry and art, including a <i><a href="/wiki/Cupid_(Michelangelo)" class="mw-redirect" title="Cupid (Michelangelo)">Sleeping Cupid</a></i> (1496) by <a href="/wiki/Michelangelo" title="Michelangelo">Michelangelo</a> that is now lost.<sup id="cite_ref-42" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The ancient type was known at the time through descriptions in classical literature, and at least one extant example had been displayed in the sculpture garden of <a href="/wiki/Lorenzo_de%27_Medici" title="Lorenzo de' Medici">Lorenzo de' Medici</a> since 1488.<sup id="cite_ref-43" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In the 1st century AD, <a href="/wiki/Pliny_the_Elder" title="Pliny the Elder">Pliny</a> had described two marble versions of a <i>Cupid</i> (Eros), one at <a href="/wiki/Thespiae" title="Thespiae">Thespiae</a> and a nude at <a href="/wiki/Parium" title="Parium">Parium</a>, where it was the stained object of erotic fascination.<sup id="cite_ref-44" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Michelangelo's work was important in establishing the reputation of the young artist, who was only twenty at the time. At the request of <a href="/wiki/Lorenzo_di_Pierfrancesco_de%27_Medici" title="Lorenzo di Pierfrancesco de' Medici">Lorenzo di Pierfrancesco de' Medici</a>, his patron, he increased its value by deliberately making it look "antique",<sup id="cite_ref-45" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> thus creating "his most notorious fake".<sup id="cite_ref-46" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> After the deception was acknowledged, the <i>Cupid Sleeping</i> was displayed as evidence of his virtuosity alongside an ancient marble, attributed to <a href="/wiki/Praxiteles" title="Praxiteles">Praxiteles</a>, of Cupid asleep on a lion skin.<sup id="cite_ref-47" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In the poetry of <a href="/wiki/Giambattista_Marino" title="Giambattista Marino">Giambattista Marino</a> (d. 1625), the image of Cupid or <i>Amore</i> sleeping represents the indolence of Love in the lap of Idleness. A <a href="/wiki/Madrigal" title="Madrigal">madrigal</a> by his literary rival <a href="/wiki/Gaspare_Murtola" title="Gaspare Murtola">Gaspare Murtola</a> exhorted artists to paint the theme. A catalogue of works from antiquity collected by the <a href="/wiki/House_of_Mattei" class="mw-redirect" title="House of Mattei">Mattei family</a>, patrons of <a href="/wiki/Caravaggio" title="Caravaggio">Caravaggio</a>, included sketches of sleeping cupids based on sculpture from the <a href="/wiki/Temple_of_Venus_Erycina_(Capitoline_Hill)" title="Temple of Venus Erycina (Capitoline Hill)">Temple of Venus Erycina</a> in Rome. Caravaggio, whose works Murtola is known for describing, took up the challenge with his 1608 <i><a href="/wiki/Sleeping_Cupid_(Caravaggio)" title="Sleeping Cupid (Caravaggio)">Sleeping Cupid</a></i>, a disturbing depiction of an unhealthy, immobilized child with "jaundiced skin, flushed cheeks, bluish lips and ears, the emaciated chest and swollen belly, the wasted muscles and inflamed joints". The model is thought to have suffered from <a href="/wiki/Juvenile_rheumatoid_arthritis" class="mw-redirect" title="Juvenile rheumatoid arthritis">juvenile rheumatoid arthritis</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-48" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-48"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Caravaggio's sleeping Cupid was reconceived in <a href="/wiki/Fresco" title="Fresco">fresco</a> by <a href="/wiki/Giovanni_da_San_Giovanni" title="Giovanni da San Giovanni">Giovanni da San Giovanni</a>, and the subject recurred throughout Roman and Italian work of the period.<sup id="cite_ref-49" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-49"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Love_Conquers_All"><i>Love Conquers All</i></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Cupid&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Love Conquers All"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Amor_Vincet_Omnia.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/df/Amor_Vincet_Omnia.jpg/170px-Amor_Vincet_Omnia.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="238" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/df/Amor_Vincet_Omnia.jpg/255px-Amor_Vincet_Omnia.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/df/Amor_Vincet_Omnia.jpg/340px-Amor_Vincet_Omnia.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1151" data-file-height="1614" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Amor_Vincit_Omnia_(Caravaggio)" title="Amor Vincit Omnia (Caravaggio)">Caravaggio's <i>Amor Vincit Omnia</i></a></figcaption></figure> <p>Earlier in his career, Caravaggio had challenged contemporary sensibilities with his "sexually provocative and anti-intellectual" <i>Victorious Love</i>, also known as <i><a href="/wiki/Amor_Vincit_Omnia_(Caravaggio)" title="Amor Vincit Omnia (Caravaggio)">Love Conquers All</a></i> <i>(Amor Vincit Omnia)</i>, in which a brazenly naked Cupid tramples on emblems of culture and erudition representing music, architecture, warfare, and scholarship.<sup id="cite_ref-50" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p> The motto comes from the <a href="/wiki/Augustan_literature_(ancient_Rome)" title="Augustan literature (ancient Rome)">Augustan</a> poet <a href="/wiki/Vergil" class="mw-redirect" title="Vergil">Vergil</a>, writing in the late 1st century BC. His collection of <i><a href="/wiki/Eclogues" title="Eclogues">Eclogues</a></i> concludes with what might be his most famous line:<sup id="cite_ref-51" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-51"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>51<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p><blockquote><p><i>Omnia vincit Amor: et nos cedamus Amori.</i><br />Love conquers all, and so let us surrender ourselves to Love.<sup id="cite_ref-52" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></blockquote> <p>The theme was also expressed as the <a href="/wiki/Roman_triumph" title="Roman triumph">triumph</a> of Cupid, as in the <i><a href="/wiki/Triumphs" title="Triumphs">Triumphs</a></i> of <a href="/wiki/Petrarch" title="Petrarch">Petrarch</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-53" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-53"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>53<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Roman_Cupid">Roman <i>Cupid</i></h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Cupid&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Roman Cupid"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Altar_Mars_Venus_Massimo_n4.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/37/Altar_Mars_Venus_Massimo_n4.jpg/220px-Altar_Mars_Venus_Massimo_n4.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="196" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/37/Altar_Mars_Venus_Massimo_n4.jpg/330px-Altar_Mars_Venus_Massimo_n4.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/37/Altar_Mars_Venus_Massimo_n4.jpg/440px-Altar_Mars_Venus_Massimo_n4.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2800" data-file-height="2500" /></a><figcaption>Fragmentary base for an altar of Venus and Mars, showing cupids handling the weapons and <a href="/wiki/Biga_(chariot)" title="Biga (chariot)">chariot</a> of the war god, from the reign of <a href="/wiki/Trajan" title="Trajan">Trajan</a> (98–117 AD)</figcaption></figure> <p>The ancient Roman <i>Cupid</i> was a god who embodied desire, but he had no <a href="/wiki/Roman_temple" title="Roman temple">temples</a> or religious practices independent of other <a href="/wiki/List_of_Roman_deities" title="List of Roman deities">Roman deities</a> such as Venus, whom he often accompanies as a side figure in cult statues.<sup id="cite_ref-Cupid-p244_14-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Cupid-p244-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A Cupid might appear among the several statuettes for private devotion in a <a href="/wiki/Lararium" class="mw-redirect" title="Lararium">household shrine</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-54" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-54"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>54<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> but there is no clear distinction between figures for veneration and those displayed as art or decoration.<sup id="cite_ref-55" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-55"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>55<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This is a distinction from his Greek equivalent, <a href="/wiki/Eros" title="Eros">Eros</a>, who was commonly worshipped alongside his mother <a href="/wiki/Aphrodite" title="Aphrodite">Aphrodite</a>, and was even given a sacred day upon the 4th of every month. <sup id="cite_ref-56" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-56"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>56<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Roman temples often served a secondary purpose as art museums, and <a href="/wiki/Cicero" title="Cicero">Cicero</a> mentions a statue of "Cupid" (Eros) by <a href="/wiki/Praxiteles" title="Praxiteles">Praxiteles</a> that was consecrated at a <i><a href="/wiki/Sacellum" title="Sacellum">sacrarium</a></i> and received religious veneration jointly with <a href="/wiki/Hercules" title="Hercules">Hercules</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-57" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-57"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>57<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> An inscription from <a href="/wiki/C%C3%A1rtama" title="Cártama">Cártama</a> in <a href="/wiki/Roman_Spain" class="mw-redirect" title="Roman Spain">Roman Spain</a> records statues of Mars and Cupid among the public works of a wealthy female priest <i>(<a href="/wiki/Glossary_of_ancient_Roman_religion#sacerdos" title="Glossary of ancient Roman religion">sacerdos perpetua</a>)</i>, and another list of benefactions by a <a href="/wiki/Procurator_(Roman)" class="mw-redirect" title="Procurator (Roman)">procurator</a> of <a href="/wiki/Baetica" class="mw-redirect" title="Baetica">Baetica</a> includes statues of Venus and Cupid.<sup id="cite_ref-58" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-58"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>58<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Cupid became more common in <a href="/wiki/Roman_art" title="Roman art">Roman art</a> from the time of <a href="/wiki/Augustus" title="Augustus">Augustus</a>, the first <a href="/wiki/Roman_emperor" title="Roman emperor">Roman emperor</a>. After the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Actium" title="Battle of Actium">Battle of Actium</a>, when <a href="/wiki/Mark_Antony" title="Mark Antony">Antony</a> and <a href="/wiki/Cleopatra" title="Cleopatra">Cleopatra</a> were defeated, Cupid transferring the weapons of Mars to his mother Venus became a motif of Augustan imagery.<sup id="cite_ref-59" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-59"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>59<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In the <i><a href="/wiki/Aeneid" title="Aeneid">Aeneid</a></i>, the national epic of Rome by the poet <a href="/wiki/Virgil" title="Virgil">Virgil</a>, Cupid disguises himself as <a href="/wiki/Ascanius" title="Ascanius">Iulus</a>, the son of <a href="/wiki/Aeneas" title="Aeneas">Aeneas</a> who was in turn the son of Venus herself, and in this form he beguiles <a href="/wiki/Dido_(Queen_of_Carthage)" class="mw-redirect" title="Dido (Queen of Carthage)">Queen Dido of Carthage</a> to fall in love with the hero. She gives safe harbor to Aeneas and his band of refugees from <a href="/wiki/Trojan_War" title="Trojan War">Troy</a>, only to be abandoned by him as he fulfills his destiny to <a href="/wiki/Founding_of_Rome" title="Founding of Rome">found Rome</a>. Iulus (also known as <a href="/wiki/Ascanius" title="Ascanius">Ascanius</a>) becomes the mythical founder of the <a href="/wiki/Julia_(gens)" class="mw-redirect" title="Julia (gens)">Julian family</a> from which <a href="/wiki/Julius_Caesar" title="Julius Caesar">Julius Caesar</a> came. Augustus, Caesar's heir, commemorated a beloved great-grandson who died as a child by having him portrayed as Cupid, dedicating one such statue at the Temple of Venus on the <a href="/wiki/Capitoline_Hill" title="Capitoline Hill">Capitoline Hill</a>, and keeping one in his bedroom where he kissed it at night.<sup id="cite_ref-60" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-60"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>60<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A brother of this child became the emperor <a href="/wiki/Claudius" title="Claudius">Claudius</a>, whose mother <a href="/wiki/Antonia_Minor" title="Antonia Minor">Antonia</a> appears in a surviving portrait-sculpture as Venus, with Cupid on her shoulder.<sup id="cite_ref-61" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-61"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>61<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The <i><a href="/wiki/Augustus_of_Prima_Porta" title="Augustus of Prima Porta">Augustus of Prima Porta</a></i> is accompanied by a <a href="#Cupid_riding_a_dolphin">Cupid riding a dolphin</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-62" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-62"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>62<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Cupids in multiples appeared on the <a href="/wiki/Frieze" title="Frieze">friezes</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Temple_of_Venus_Genetrix" title="Temple of Venus Genetrix">Temple of Venus Genetrix</a> (Venus as "Begetting Mother"), and influenced scenes of <a href="/wiki/Relief_sculpture" class="mw-redirect" title="Relief sculpture">relief sculpture</a> on other works such as <a href="/wiki/Ancient_Roman_sarcophagi" title="Ancient Roman sarcophagi">sarcophagi</a>, particularly those of children.<sup id="cite_ref-63" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-63"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>63<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Giovanni_Battista_Tiepolo_-_Aeneas_Introducing_Cupid_Dressed_as_Ascanius_to_Dido_-_WGA22337.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b5/Giovanni_Battista_Tiepolo_-_Aeneas_Introducing_Cupid_Dressed_as_Ascanius_to_Dido_-_WGA22337.jpg/220px-Giovanni_Battista_Tiepolo_-_Aeneas_Introducing_Cupid_Dressed_as_Ascanius_to_Dido_-_WGA22337.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="217" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b5/Giovanni_Battista_Tiepolo_-_Aeneas_Introducing_Cupid_Dressed_as_Ascanius_to_Dido_-_WGA22337.jpg/330px-Giovanni_Battista_Tiepolo_-_Aeneas_Introducing_Cupid_Dressed_as_Ascanius_to_Dido_-_WGA22337.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b5/Giovanni_Battista_Tiepolo_-_Aeneas_Introducing_Cupid_Dressed_as_Ascanius_to_Dido_-_WGA22337.jpg/440px-Giovanni_Battista_Tiepolo_-_Aeneas_Introducing_Cupid_Dressed_as_Ascanius_to_Dido_-_WGA22337.jpg 2x" data-file-width="962" data-file-height="950" /></a><figcaption><i>Aeneas Introducing Cupid Dressed as Ascanius to Dido</i> (1757) by <a href="/wiki/Giovanni_Battista_Tiepolo" title="Giovanni Battista Tiepolo">Tiepolo</a></figcaption></figure><p> As a winged figure, <i>Cupido</i> shared some characteristics with the <a href="/wiki/Victoria_(mythology)" title="Victoria (mythology)">goddess <i>Victoria</i></a>.<sup id="cite_ref-64" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-64"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>64<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On coinage issued by <a href="/wiki/Sulla" title="Sulla">Sulla</a> the <a href="/wiki/Roman_dictator" title="Roman dictator">dictator</a>, Cupid bears the <a href="/wiki/Palm_branch_(symbol)" class="mw-redirect" title="Palm branch (symbol)">palm branch</a>, the most common attribute of Victory.<sup id="cite_ref-65" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-65"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>65<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> "Desire" in Roman culture<sup id="cite_ref-66" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-66"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>66<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> was often attached to power as well as to erotic attraction. <a href="/wiki/Roman_historiography" title="Roman historiography">Roman historians</a> criticize <i>cupido gloriae</i>, "desire for glory", and <i>cupido <a href="/wiki/Imperium" title="Imperium">imperii</a></i>, "desire for ruling power".<sup id="cite_ref-67" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-67"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>67<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In Latin philosophical discourse, <i>cupido</i> is the equivalent of Greek <i><a href="/wiki/Pothos_(mythology)" class="mw-redirect" title="Pothos (mythology)">pothos</a></i>, a focus of reflections on the meaning and burden of desire. In depicting the "pious love" <i>(amor pius)</i> of <a href="/wiki/Nisus_and_Euryalus" title="Nisus and Euryalus">Nisus and Euryalus</a> in the <i>Aeneid,</i> Vergil has Nisus wonder:</p><blockquote><p>Is it the gods who put passion in men's mind, Euryalus, or does each person's fierce desire <i>(cupido)</i> become his own God?<sup id="cite_ref-68" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-68"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>68<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></blockquote><p> In <a href="/wiki/Sexuality_in_ancient_Rome#Epicurean_sexuality" title="Sexuality in ancient Rome">Lucretius' physics of sex</a>, <i>cupido</i> can represent human lust and an animal instinct to mate, but also the impulse of atoms to bond and form matter.<sup id="cite_ref-69" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-69"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>69<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> An association of sex and violence is found in the erotic fascination for <a href="/wiki/Gladiator" title="Gladiator">gladiators</a>, who often had sexualized names such as <i>Cupido</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-70" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-70"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>70<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Cupid was the enemy of <a href="/wiki/Chastity" title="Chastity">chastity</a>, and the poet <a href="/wiki/Ovid" title="Ovid">Ovid</a> opposes him to <a href="/wiki/Diana_(mythology)" title="Diana (mythology)">Diana</a>, the virgin goddess of the hunt who likewise carries a bow but who hates Cupid's passion-provoking arrows.<sup id="cite_ref-71" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-71"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>71<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Cupid is also at odds with <a href="/wiki/Apollo" title="Apollo">Apollo</a>, the archer-brother of Diana and patron of poetic inspiration whose love affairs almost always end disastrously. Ovid jokingly blames Cupid for causing him to write love poetry instead of the more respectable epic.<sup id="cite_ref-72" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-72"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>72<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Cupid_and_Psyche">Cupid and Psyche</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Cupid&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Cupid and Psyche"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Cupid_and_Psyche" title="Cupid and Psyche">Cupid and Psyche</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Vouet-Psych%C3%A9-Lyon.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/35/Vouet-Psych%C3%A9-Lyon.jpg/300px-Vouet-Psych%C3%A9-Lyon.jpg" decoding="async" width="300" height="201" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/35/Vouet-Psych%C3%A9-Lyon.jpg/450px-Vouet-Psych%C3%A9-Lyon.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/35/Vouet-Psych%C3%A9-Lyon.jpg/600px-Vouet-Psych%C3%A9-Lyon.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1491" data-file-height="1000" /></a><figcaption><i>Psyché et l'amour</i> (1626–29) by <a href="/wiki/Simon_Vouet" title="Simon Vouet">Simon Vouet</a>: Psyche lifts a lamp to view the sleeping Cupid.</figcaption></figure> <p>The story of Cupid and Psyche appears in <a href="/wiki/Ancient_Greek_art" title="Ancient Greek art">Greek art</a> as early as the 4th century BC, but the most extended literary source of the tale is the Latin novel <i>Metamorphoses</i>, also known as <i><a href="/wiki/The_Golden_Ass" title="The Golden Ass">The Golden Ass</a></i>, by <a href="/wiki/Apuleius" title="Apuleius">Apuleius</a> (2nd century AD). It concerns the overcoming of obstacles to the love between Psyche ("Soul" or "Breath of Life") and Cupid, and their ultimate union in marriage. </p><p>The fame of Psyche's beauty threatens to eclipse that of Venus herself, and the love goddess sends Cupid to work her revenge. Cupid, however, becomes enamored of Psyche, and arranges for her to be taken to his palace. He visits her by night, warning her not to try to look upon him. Psyche's envious sisters convince her that her lover must be a hideous monster, and she finally introduces a lamp into their chamber to see him. Startled by his beauty, she drips hot oil from the lamp and wakes him. He abandons her. She wanders the earth looking for him, and finally submits to the service of Venus, who tortures her. The goddess then sends Psyche on a series of quests. Each time she despairs, and each time she is given divine aid. On her final task, she is to retrieve a dose of <a href="/wiki/Proserpina" title="Proserpina">Proserpina</a>'s beauty from the underworld. She succeeds, but on the way back can not resist opening the box in the hope of benefitting from it herself, whereupon she falls into a torpid sleep. Cupid finds her in this state, and revives her by returning the sleep to the box. Cupid grants her immortality so the couple can be wed as equals. </p><p>The story's <a href="/wiki/Neoplatonic" class="mw-redirect" title="Neoplatonic">Neoplatonic</a> elements and allusions to <a href="/wiki/Mystery_religions" class="mw-redirect" title="Mystery religions">mystery religions</a> accommodate multiple interpretations,<sup id="cite_ref-73" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-73"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>73<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and it has been analyzed as an <a href="/wiki/Allegory" title="Allegory">allegory</a> and in light of <a href="/wiki/Folklore" title="Folklore">folktale</a>, <a href="/wiki/Fairy_tale#Terminology" title="Fairy tale">Märchen</a> or <a href="/wiki/Fairy_tale" title="Fairy tale">fairy tale</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Myth" title="Myth">myth</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-74" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-74"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>74<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Often presented as an allegory of love overcoming death, the story was a frequent source of imagery for <a href="/wiki/Roman_sarcophagi" class="mw-redirect" title="Roman sarcophagi">Roman sarcophagi</a> and other extant art of antiquity. Since the rediscovery of Apuleius's novel in the <a href="/wiki/Renaissance" title="Renaissance">Renaissance</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Reception_theory" title="Reception theory">reception</a> of <i>Cupid and Psyche</i> in the <a href="/wiki/Classical_tradition" title="Classical tradition">classical tradition</a> has been extensive. The story has been retold in poetry, drama, and opera, and depicted widely in painting, sculpture, and various media.<sup id="cite_ref-75" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-75"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>75<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It has also played a role in popular culture as an example for "true love", and is commonly used in relation to the holiday <a href="/wiki/Valentine%27s_Day" title="Valentine's Day">Valentine's Day</a>. </p><p>"La Belle et la Bête" ("The Beauty and the Beast") was written by <a href="/wiki/Gabrielle-Suzanne_de_Villeneuve" class="mw-redirect" title="Gabrielle-Suzanne de Villeneuve">Gabrielle-Suzanne de Villeneuve</a>, and then abridged by <a href="/wiki/Jeanne-Marie_Leprince_de_Beaumont" title="Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont">Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont</a> in 1740;<sup id="cite_ref-76" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-76"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>76<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> in 1991 it inspired the Disney movie <i><a href="/wiki/Beauty_and_the_Beast_(1991_film)" title="Beauty and the Beast (1991 film)">Beauty and the Beast</a></i>. It has been said that Gabrielle was inspired<sup id="cite_ref-77" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-77"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>77<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-78" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-78"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>78<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> by the tale <i><a href="/wiki/Cupid_and_Psyche" title="Cupid and Psyche">Cupid and Psyche</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-79" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-79"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>79<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Depictions">Depictions</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Cupid&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Depictions"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>On gems and other surviving pieces, Cupid is usually shown amusing himself with adult play, sometimes driving a hoop, throwing darts, catching a butterfly, or flirting with a <a href="/wiki/Nymph" title="Nymph">nymph</a>. He is often depicted with his mother (in graphic arts, this is nearly always Venus), playing a horn. In other images, his mother is depicted scolding or even spanking him due to his mischievous nature. He is also shown wearing a helmet and carrying a buckler, perhaps in reference to <a href="/wiki/Virgil" title="Virgil">Virgil</a>'s <i>Omnia vincit amor</i> or as <a href="/wiki/Political_satire" title="Political satire">political satire</a> on wars for love, or love as war. Traditionally, Cupid was portrayed nude in the style of Classical art, but more modern depictions show him wearing a diaper, sash, and/or wings. </p> <ul class="gallery mw-gallery-traditional" style="max-width: 1215px;"> <li class="gallerycaption">Cupid</li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 235px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 230px; height: 230px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Ascoli_Satriano_Painter_-_Red-Figure_Plate_with_Eros_-_Walters_482765.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="A red-figure plate with Eros as a youth making an offering (c. 340–320 BC). Walters Art Museum, Baltimore"><img alt="A red-figure plate with Eros as a youth making an offering (c. 340–320 BC). Walters Art Museum, Baltimore" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e6/Ascoli_Satriano_Painter_-_Red-Figure_Plate_with_Eros_-_Walters_482765.jpg/200px-Ascoli_Satriano_Painter_-_Red-Figure_Plate_with_Eros_-_Walters_482765.jpg" decoding="async" width="200" height="195" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e6/Ascoli_Satriano_Painter_-_Red-Figure_Plate_with_Eros_-_Walters_482765.jpg/300px-Ascoli_Satriano_Painter_-_Red-Figure_Plate_with_Eros_-_Walters_482765.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e6/Ascoli_Satriano_Painter_-_Red-Figure_Plate_with_Eros_-_Walters_482765.jpg/400px-Ascoli_Satriano_Painter_-_Red-Figure_Plate_with_Eros_-_Walters_482765.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1800" data-file-height="1758" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">A <a href="/wiki/Red-figure_pottery" title="Red-figure pottery">red-figure</a> plate with Eros as a youth making an offering (c. 340–320 BC). <a href="/wiki/Walters_Art_Museum" title="Walters Art Museum">Walters Art Museum</a>, <a href="/wiki/Baltimore" title="Baltimore">Baltimore</a></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 235px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 230px; height: 230px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Lucas_Cranach_the_Elder_-_Venus_with_Cupid_Stealing_Honey_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Lucas Cranach the Elder – Venus with Cupid Stealing Honey"><img alt="Lucas Cranach the Elder – Venus with Cupid Stealing Honey" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d9/Lucas_Cranach_the_Elder_-_Venus_with_Cupid_Stealing_Honey_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg/133px-Lucas_Cranach_the_Elder_-_Venus_with_Cupid_Stealing_Honey_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg" decoding="async" width="133" height="200" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d9/Lucas_Cranach_the_Elder_-_Venus_with_Cupid_Stealing_Honey_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg/200px-Lucas_Cranach_the_Elder_-_Venus_with_Cupid_Stealing_Honey_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d9/Lucas_Cranach_the_Elder_-_Venus_with_Cupid_Stealing_Honey_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg/267px-Lucas_Cranach_the_Elder_-_Venus_with_Cupid_Stealing_Honey_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3443" data-file-height="5153" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"><a href="/wiki/Lucas_Cranach_the_Elder" title="Lucas Cranach the Elder">Lucas Cranach the Elder</a> – <i>Venus with Cupid Stealing Honey</i></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 235px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 230px; height: 230px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Herculaneum_-_Lyre_and_Cupids.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Cupids playing with a lyre, Roman fresco from Herculaneum"><img alt="Cupids playing with a lyre, Roman fresco from Herculaneum" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/29/Herculaneum_-_Lyre_and_Cupids.jpg/112px-Herculaneum_-_Lyre_and_Cupids.jpg" decoding="async" width="112" height="200" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/29/Herculaneum_-_Lyre_and_Cupids.jpg/168px-Herculaneum_-_Lyre_and_Cupids.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/29/Herculaneum_-_Lyre_and_Cupids.jpg/225px-Herculaneum_-_Lyre_and_Cupids.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1473" data-file-height="2620" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Cupids playing with a <a href="/wiki/Lyre" title="Lyre">lyre</a>, <a href="/wiki/Roman_art" title="Roman art">Roman fresco</a> from <a href="/wiki/Herculaneum" title="Herculaneum">Herculaneum</a></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 235px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 230px; height: 230px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:M%C3%A5lning._Venus._Frans_Floris_-_Hallwylska_museet_-_86707.tif" class="mw-file-description" title="Venus and Amor by Frans Floris, Hallwyl Museum"><img alt="Venus and Amor by Frans Floris, Hallwyl Museum" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8f/M%C3%A5lning._Venus._Frans_Floris_-_Hallwylska_museet_-_86707.tif/lossy-page1-200px-M%C3%A5lning._Venus._Frans_Floris_-_Hallwylska_museet_-_86707.tif.jpg" decoding="async" width="200" height="143" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8f/M%C3%A5lning._Venus._Frans_Floris_-_Hallwylska_museet_-_86707.tif/lossy-page1-300px-M%C3%A5lning._Venus._Frans_Floris_-_Hallwylska_museet_-_86707.tif.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8f/M%C3%A5lning._Venus._Frans_Floris_-_Hallwylska_museet_-_86707.tif/lossy-page1-400px-M%C3%A5lning._Venus._Frans_Floris_-_Hallwylska_museet_-_86707.tif.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4776" data-file-height="3420" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"><i>Venus and Amor</i> by <a href="/wiki/Frans_Floris" title="Frans Floris">Frans Floris</a>, <a href="/wiki/Hallwyl_Museum" title="Hallwyl Museum">Hallwyl Museum</a></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 235px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 230px; height: 230px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Albrecht_D%C3%BCrer_-_Cupid_the_Honey_Thief_-_WGA07372.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Cupid the Honey Thief (1514) by Dürer"><img alt="Cupid the Honey Thief (1514) by Dürer" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ad/Albrecht_D%C3%BCrer_-_Cupid_the_Honey_Thief_-_WGA07372.jpg/200px-Albrecht_D%C3%BCrer_-_Cupid_the_Honey_Thief_-_WGA07372.jpg" decoding="async" width="200" height="137" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ad/Albrecht_D%C3%BCrer_-_Cupid_the_Honey_Thief_-_WGA07372.jpg/300px-Albrecht_D%C3%BCrer_-_Cupid_the_Honey_Thief_-_WGA07372.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ad/Albrecht_D%C3%BCrer_-_Cupid_the_Honey_Thief_-_WGA07372.jpg/400px-Albrecht_D%C3%BCrer_-_Cupid_the_Honey_Thief_-_WGA07372.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1030" data-file-height="704" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"><i>Cupid the Honey Thief</i> (1514) by <a href="/wiki/Albrecht_D%C3%BCrer" title="Albrecht Dürer">Dürer</a></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 235px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 230px; height: 230px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Joachim_Wtewael_-_Venus,_Mars_en_Cupido_-_oil_paint_on_copper_-_around_1610.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Venus, Mars and Cupido by Joachim Wtewael, around 1610"><img alt="Venus, Mars and Cupido by Joachim Wtewael, around 1610" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5d/Joachim_Wtewael_-_Venus%2C_Mars_en_Cupido_-_oil_paint_on_copper_-_around_1610.jpg/146px-Joachim_Wtewael_-_Venus%2C_Mars_en_Cupido_-_oil_paint_on_copper_-_around_1610.jpg" decoding="async" width="146" height="200" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5d/Joachim_Wtewael_-_Venus%2C_Mars_en_Cupido_-_oil_paint_on_copper_-_around_1610.jpg/219px-Joachim_Wtewael_-_Venus%2C_Mars_en_Cupido_-_oil_paint_on_copper_-_around_1610.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5d/Joachim_Wtewael_-_Venus%2C_Mars_en_Cupido_-_oil_paint_on_copper_-_around_1610.jpg/292px-Joachim_Wtewael_-_Venus%2C_Mars_en_Cupido_-_oil_paint_on_copper_-_around_1610.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1280" data-file-height="1751" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"><i>Venus, Mars and Cupido</i> by <a href="/wiki/Joachim_Wtewael" title="Joachim Wtewael">Joachim Wtewael</a>, around 1610</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 235px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 230px; height: 230px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Guercino_-_cena_mitologica_(venus,_marte,_cupido_e_o_tempo),_c.1624-27.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Allegory with Venus, Mars, Cupid and Time (ca. 1625): in the unique interpretation of Guercino, winged Time points an accusing finger at baby Cupid, held in a net that evokes the snare in which Venus and Mars were caught by her betrayed husband Vulcan.[80]"><img alt="Allegory with Venus, Mars, Cupid and Time (ca. 1625): in the unique interpretation of Guercino, winged Time points an accusing finger at baby Cupid, held in a net that evokes the snare in which Venus and Mars were caught by her betrayed husband Vulcan.[80]" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/14/Guercino_-_cena_mitologica_%28venus%2C_marte%2C_cupido_e_o_tempo%29%2C_c.1624-27.jpg/200px-Guercino_-_cena_mitologica_%28venus%2C_marte%2C_cupido_e_o_tempo%29%2C_c.1624-27.jpg" decoding="async" width="200" height="145" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/14/Guercino_-_cena_mitologica_%28venus%2C_marte%2C_cupido_e_o_tempo%29%2C_c.1624-27.jpg/300px-Guercino_-_cena_mitologica_%28venus%2C_marte%2C_cupido_e_o_tempo%29%2C_c.1624-27.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/14/Guercino_-_cena_mitologica_%28venus%2C_marte%2C_cupido_e_o_tempo%29%2C_c.1624-27.jpg/400px-Guercino_-_cena_mitologica_%28venus%2C_marte%2C_cupido_e_o_tempo%29%2C_c.1624-27.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4409" data-file-height="3197" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"><i>Allegory with Venus, Mars, Cupid and Time</i> (ca. 1625): in the unique interpretation of <a href="/wiki/Guercino" title="Guercino">Guercino</a>, winged <a href="/wiki/Chronos" title="Chronos">Time</a> points an accusing finger at baby Cupid, held in a net that evokes the snare in which Venus and Mars were caught by her betrayed husband Vulcan.<sup id="cite_ref-80" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-80"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>80<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 235px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 230px; height: 230px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Nicolas_Poussin_Apoll_und_Daphne.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Cupid draws his bow as the river god Peneus averts his gaze in Apollo and Daphne (1625) by Poussin."><img alt="Cupid draws his bow as the river god Peneus averts his gaze in Apollo and Daphne (1625) by Poussin." src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a3/Nicolas_Poussin_Apoll_und_Daphne.jpg/200px-Nicolas_Poussin_Apoll_und_Daphne.jpg" decoding="async" width="200" height="148" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a3/Nicolas_Poussin_Apoll_und_Daphne.jpg/300px-Nicolas_Poussin_Apoll_und_Daphne.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a3/Nicolas_Poussin_Apoll_und_Daphne.jpg/400px-Nicolas_Poussin_Apoll_und_Daphne.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3000" data-file-height="2225" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Cupid draws his bow as the river god <a href="/wiki/Peneus" title="Peneus">Peneus</a> averts his gaze in <i>Apollo and Daphne</i> (1625) by <a href="/wiki/Nicolas_Poussin" title="Nicolas Poussin">Poussin</a>.</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 235px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 230px; height: 230px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Master_of_the_Incredulity_of_Saint_Thomas_or_Jean_Ducamps_-_Amor_breaking_his_bow.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Cupid breaking his bow (c. 1635) by Jean Ducamps"><img alt="Cupid breaking his bow (c. 1635) by Jean Ducamps" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9d/Master_of_the_Incredulity_of_Saint_Thomas_or_Jean_Ducamps_-_Amor_breaking_his_bow.jpg/145px-Master_of_the_Incredulity_of_Saint_Thomas_or_Jean_Ducamps_-_Amor_breaking_his_bow.jpg" decoding="async" width="145" height="200" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9d/Master_of_the_Incredulity_of_Saint_Thomas_or_Jean_Ducamps_-_Amor_breaking_his_bow.jpg/217px-Master_of_the_Incredulity_of_Saint_Thomas_or_Jean_Ducamps_-_Amor_breaking_his_bow.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9d/Master_of_the_Incredulity_of_Saint_Thomas_or_Jean_Ducamps_-_Amor_breaking_his_bow.jpg/290px-Master_of_the_Incredulity_of_Saint_Thomas_or_Jean_Ducamps_-_Amor_breaking_his_bow.jpg 2x" data-file-width="870" data-file-height="1200" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"><i>Cupid breaking his bow</i> (c. 1635) by <a href="/wiki/Giovanni_di_Filippo_del_Campo" class="mw-redirect" title="Giovanni di Filippo del Campo">Jean Ducamps</a></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 235px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 230px; height: 230px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Jean-Jacque-Fran%C3%A7ois_le_Barbier_-_Cupid_in_a_Tree_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Cupid in a Tree (1795/1805) by Jean-Jacques-François Le Barbier"><img alt="Cupid in a Tree (1795/1805) by Jean-Jacques-François Le Barbier" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/11/Jean-Jacque-Fran%C3%A7ois_le_Barbier_-_Cupid_in_a_Tree_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg/165px-Jean-Jacque-Fran%C3%A7ois_le_Barbier_-_Cupid_in_a_Tree_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg" decoding="async" width="165" height="200" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/11/Jean-Jacque-Fran%C3%A7ois_le_Barbier_-_Cupid_in_a_Tree_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg/247px-Jean-Jacque-Fran%C3%A7ois_le_Barbier_-_Cupid_in_a_Tree_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/11/Jean-Jacque-Fran%C3%A7ois_le_Barbier_-_Cupid_in_a_Tree_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg/330px-Jean-Jacque-Fran%C3%A7ois_le_Barbier_-_Cupid_in_a_Tree_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1979" data-file-height="2401" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"><i>Cupid in a Tree</i> (1795/1805) by <a href="/wiki/Jean-Jacques-Fran%C3%A7ois_Le_Barbier" title="Jean-Jacques-François Le Barbier">Jean-Jacques-François Le Barbier</a></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 235px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 230px; height: 230px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Benjamin_west_omnia_vincit_amor_1809.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Omnia Vincit Amor (1809) by Benjamin West"><img alt="Omnia Vincit Amor (1809) by Benjamin West" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ca/Benjamin_west_omnia_vincit_amor_1809.jpg/200px-Benjamin_west_omnia_vincit_amor_1809.jpg" decoding="async" width="200" height="176" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ca/Benjamin_west_omnia_vincit_amor_1809.jpg/300px-Benjamin_west_omnia_vincit_amor_1809.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ca/Benjamin_west_omnia_vincit_amor_1809.jpg/400px-Benjamin_west_omnia_vincit_amor_1809.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2000" data-file-height="1762" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"><i>Omnia Vincit Amor</i> (1809) by <a href="/wiki/Benjamin_West" title="Benjamin West">Benjamin West</a></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 235px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 230px; height: 230px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Bouguereau,_William_Adolphe_-_Putto_sur_un_monstre_marin.png" class="mw-file-description" title="Cupid on a sea monster (c. 1857) by William Adolphe Bouguereau"><img alt="Cupid on a sea monster (c. 1857) by William Adolphe Bouguereau" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/40/Bouguereau%2C_William_Adolphe_-_Putto_sur_un_monstre_marin.png/200px-Bouguereau%2C_William_Adolphe_-_Putto_sur_un_monstre_marin.png" decoding="async" width="200" height="155" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/40/Bouguereau%2C_William_Adolphe_-_Putto_sur_un_monstre_marin.png/300px-Bouguereau%2C_William_Adolphe_-_Putto_sur_un_monstre_marin.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/40/Bouguereau%2C_William_Adolphe_-_Putto_sur_un_monstre_marin.png/400px-Bouguereau%2C_William_Adolphe_-_Putto_sur_un_monstre_marin.png 2x" data-file-width="2872" data-file-height="2225" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"><i>Cupid on a <a href="/wiki/Sea_monster" title="Sea monster">sea monster</a></i> (c. 1857) by <a href="/wiki/William_Adolphe_Bouguereau" class="mw-redirect" title="William Adolphe Bouguereau">William Adolphe Bouguereau</a></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 235px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 230px; height: 230px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Antique_Valentine_1909_01.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="A Valentine greeting card (1909)"><img alt="A Valentine greeting card (1909)" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/45/Antique_Valentine_1909_01.jpg/125px-Antique_Valentine_1909_01.jpg" decoding="async" width="125" height="200" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/45/Antique_Valentine_1909_01.jpg/187px-Antique_Valentine_1909_01.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/45/Antique_Valentine_1909_01.jpg/249px-Antique_Valentine_1909_01.jpg 2x" data-file-width="971" data-file-height="1556" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">A <a href="/wiki/Valentine%27s_Day" title="Valentine's Day">Valentine greeting card</a> (1909)</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 235px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 230px; height: 230px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Jeanne-Elisabeth_Chaudet_-_L%E2%80%99Amour_qui_vient_de_d%C3%A9rober_une_rose.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Love who has just stolen a rose, circa 1796, by Jeanne-Elisabeth Chaudet"><img alt="Love who has just stolen a rose, circa 1796, by Jeanne-Elisabeth Chaudet" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/82/Jeanne-Elisabeth_Chaudet_-_L%E2%80%99Amour_qui_vient_de_d%C3%A9rober_une_rose.jpg/170px-Jeanne-Elisabeth_Chaudet_-_L%E2%80%99Amour_qui_vient_de_d%C3%A9rober_une_rose.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="200" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/82/Jeanne-Elisabeth_Chaudet_-_L%E2%80%99Amour_qui_vient_de_d%C3%A9rober_une_rose.jpg/254px-Jeanne-Elisabeth_Chaudet_-_L%E2%80%99Amour_qui_vient_de_d%C3%A9rober_une_rose.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/82/Jeanne-Elisabeth_Chaudet_-_L%E2%80%99Amour_qui_vient_de_d%C3%A9rober_une_rose.jpg/339px-Jeanne-Elisabeth_Chaudet_-_L%E2%80%99Amour_qui_vient_de_d%C3%A9rober_une_rose.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1696" data-file-height="2000" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"><i>Love who has just stolen a rose</i>, circa 1796, by <a href="/wiki/Jeanne-Elisabeth_Chaudet" title="Jeanne-Elisabeth Chaudet">Jeanne-Elisabeth Chaudet</a></div> </li> </ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Cupid&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Apollo_and_Daphne" title="Apollo and Daphne">Apollo and Daphne</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Putto" title="Putto">Putto</a>, often conflated with a <a href="/wiki/Cherub" title="Cherub">Cherub</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cupid%27s_bow" title="Cupid's bow">Cupid's bow</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Love_dart" title="Love dart">Love dart</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Cupid&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist reflist-columns references-column-width" style="column-width: 30em;"> <ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-Lar-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Lar_1-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><i>Larousse Desk Reference Encyclopedia</i>, <a href="/wiki/The_Book_People" title="The Book People">The Book People</a>, Haydock, 1995, p. 215.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">This introduction is based on the entry on "Cupid" in <i>The Classical Tradition,</i> edited by Anthony Grafton, Glenn W. Most, and Salvatore Settis (Harvard University Press, 2010), pp. 244–246.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEde_Vaan2008155-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEde_Vaan2008155_3-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFde_Vaan2008">de Vaan 2008</a>, p. 155.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-4">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Leonard Muellner, <i>The Anger of Achilles: </i>Mễnis<i> in Greek Epic</i> (Cornell University Press, 1996), pp. 57–58; <a href="/wiki/Jean-Pierre_Vernant" title="Jean-Pierre Vernant">Jean-Pierre Vernant</a>, "One ... Two ... Three: Erōs," in <i>Before Sexuality: The Construction of Erotic Experience in the Ancient Greek World</i> (Princeton University Press, 1990), p. 467.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-5">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Vernant, "One ... Two ... Three: Erōs," p. 465ff.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-6">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/Sappho" title="Sappho">Sappho</a>, fragment 31.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-7">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/Simonides" class="mw-redirect" title="Simonides">Simonides</a>, fragment 54.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-8">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/Acusilaus" title="Acusilaus">Acusilaus</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/FGrH" class="mw-redirect" title="FGrH">FGrH</a></i> 1A 3 frg. 6C.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-9"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-9">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/Alcaeus_of_Mytilene" class="mw-redirect" title="Alcaeus of Mytilene">Alcaeus</a>, fragment 13. Citations of ancient sources from Conti given by John Mulryan and Steven Brown, <i>Natale Conti's </i>Mythologiae<i> Books I–V</i> (Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2006), vol. 1, p. 332.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-10"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-10">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Natale Conti, <i>Mythologiae</i> 4.14.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-11"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-11">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Seneca, <i>Octavia</i> 560.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-12"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-12">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/Cicero" title="Cicero">Cicero</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/De_Natura_Deorum" title="De Natura Deorum">De Natura Deorum</a></i> 3.59–60.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-13"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-13">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">M.T. Jones-Davies and Ton Hoenselaars, introduction to <i>Masque of Cupids</i>, edited and annotated by John Jowett, in <i>Thomas Middleton: The Collected Works</i> (Oxford University Press, 2007), p. 1031.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Cupid-p244-14"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Cupid-p244_14-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Cupid-p244_14-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">"Cupid," <i>The Classical Tradition</i>, p. 244.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-15"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-15">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Entry on "Cupid," <i>The Classical Tradition</i>, p. 244.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-16"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-16">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Isidore, <i>Etymologies</i> 8.11.80.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-17"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-17">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Geoffrey Miles, <i>Classical Mythology in English Literature: A Critical Anthology</i> (Routledge, 1999), p. 24.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-18"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-18">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Shakespeare, <i>A Midsummer Night's Dream</i> 1.1.234–239.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-19"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-19">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/Jennifer_Speake" title="Jennifer Speake">Jennifer Speake</a> and <a href="/wiki/Thomas_G._Bergin" title="Thomas G. Bergin">Thomas G. Bergin</a>, entry on "Cupid," <i>Encyclopedia of the Renaissance and the Reformation</i> (Market House Books, rev. ed. 2004), p. 129.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-20"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-20">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Jean Sorabella, "A Roman Sarcophagus and Its Patron," <i>Metropolitan Museum Journal</i> 36 (2001), p. 75.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-21"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-21">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite id="CITEREFRoshen_Dalal2014" class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/Roshen_Dalal" title="Roshen Dalal">Roshen Dalal</a> (2014). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=zrk0AwAAQBAJ"><i>Hinduism: An Alphabetical Guide</i></a>. <a href="/wiki/Penguin_Books" title="Penguin Books">Penguin Books</a>. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9788184752779" title="Special:BookSources/9788184752779"><bdi>9788184752779</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Hinduism%3A+An+Alphabetical+Guide&rft.pub=Penguin+Books&rft.date=2014&rft.isbn=9788184752779&rft.au=Roshen+Dalal&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3Dzrk0AwAAQBAJ&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ACupid" class="Z3988"></span> Entry: "Kama"</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-22"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-22">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Ovid, <i>Metamorphoses</i> 1.463–473.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-23"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-23">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Book III, Ovid's Metamorphoses</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-24"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-24">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><i><a href="/wiki/The_Kingis_Quair" title="The Kingis Quair">The Kingis Quair</a></i>, lines 92–99; <a href="/wiki/Walter_W._Skeat" class="mw-redirect" title="Walter W. Skeat">Walter W. Skeat</a>, <i>Chaucerian and Other Pieces</i> (Oxford University Press, 1897, 1935), sup. vol., note 1315, p. 551.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-25"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-25">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Susan Youens, <i>Hugo Wolf and His Mörike Songs</i> (Cambridge University Press, 2004), p. 118: "When he runs crying to his mother Venus".</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-26"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-26">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Theocritus, <i>Idyll</i> 19. It also appears in <a href="/wiki/Anacreontea" title="Anacreontea">Anacreontic poetry</a>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-27"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-27">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Jane Kingsley-Smith, <i>Cupid in Early Modern Literature and Culture</i> (Cambridge University Press, 2010), p. 12.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-28"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-28">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Charles Sterling <i>et al.</i>, <i>Fifteenth- to Eighteenth-Century European Paintings in the Robert Lehman Collection: France, Central Europe, The Netherlands, Spain, and Great Britain</i> (Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1998), pp. 43–44.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-29"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-29">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Youens, <i>Hugo Wolf and His Mörike Songs</i>, p. 119.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-30"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-30">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, <i>Die Biene</i>; Youens, <i>Hugo Wolf and His Mörike Songs</i>, p. 119.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-31"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-31">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Youens, <i>Hugo Wolf and His Mörike Songs</i>, pp. 117–120.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-32"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-32">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Janet Huskinson, <i>Roman Children's Sarcophagi: Their Decoration and Its Social Significance</i> (Oxford University Press, 1996), <i>passim</i>; Joan P. Alcock, "<i>Pisces in Britannia</i>: The Eating and Portrayal of Fish in Roman Britain," in <i>Fish: Food from the Waters. Proceedings of the Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery 1997</i> (Prospect Books, 1998), p. 25.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-33"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-33">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Dominic Perring, "'Gnosticism' in Fourth-Century Britain: The Frampton Mosaics Reconsidered," <i>Britannia</i> 34 (2003), p. 108.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-34"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-34">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Anthony King, "Mammals: Evidence from Wall Paintings, Sculpture, Mosaics, Faunal Remains, and Ancient Literary Sources," in <i>The Natural History of Pompeii</i> (Cambridge University Press, 2002), pp. 419–420.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-35"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-35">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">"Archaeological News," <i>American Journal of Archaeology</i> 11.2 (1896), p. 304.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-36"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-36">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Pliny, <i><a href="/wiki/Natural_History_(Pliny)" title="Natural History (Pliny)">Natural History</a></i> 9.8.24; Alcock, "<i>Pisces in Britannia</i>," p. 25.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-37"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-37">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Marietta Cambareri and Peter Fusco, catalogue description for a Venus and Cupid, <i>Italian and Spanish Sculpture: Catalogue of the J. Paul Getty Museum Collection</i> (Getty Publications, 2002), p. 62.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-38"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-38">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Thomas Puttfarken, <i>Titian and Tragic Painting: Aristotle's Poetics And the Rise of the Modern Artist</i> (Yale University Press, 2005), p. 174.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-39"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-39">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><i>Daemon fornicationis</i> in Isidore of Seville, <i>moechiae daemon</i> in Theodulf of Orleans; Jane Chance, <i>Medieval Mythography: From Roman North Africa to the School of Chartres, A.D. 433–1177</i> (University Press of Florida, 1994), p. 129ff., especially p. 138.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-40"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-40">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/Theodulf_of_Orleans" class="mw-redirect" title="Theodulf of Orleans">Theodulf of Orleans</a>, <i>De libris</i>, <i>carmen</i> 45; Chance, <i>Medieval Mythography,</i> p. 133.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-41"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-41">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Theodulf, <i>De libris</i> 37–38; Chance, <i>Medieval Mythography,</i> pp. 137, 156, 585. Similar views are expressed by the <a href="/wiki/Second_Vatican_Mythographer" class="mw-redirect" title="Second Vatican Mythographer">Second Vatican Mythographer</a> (II 46/35) and <a href="/wiki/Remigius_of_Auxerre" title="Remigius of Auxerre">Remigius of Auxerre</a>, <i>Commentary on <a href="/wiki/Martianus_Capella" title="Martianus Capella">Martianus Capella</a></i> 8.22.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-42"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-42">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">"Cupid," <i>The Classical Tradition,</i> p. 245; Stefania Macioe, "Caravaggio and the Role of Classical Models," in <i>The Rediscovery of Antiquity: The Role of the Artist</i> (Collegium Hyperboreum, 2003), pp. 437–438.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-43"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-43">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Rona Goffen, <i>Renaissance Rivals: Michelangelo, Leonardo, Raphael, Titian</i> (Yale University Press, 2002, 2004), p. 95.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-44"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-44">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Pliny, <i>Natural History</i> 36.22, describes it as on a par with the <a href="/wiki/Aphrodite_of_Cnidus" class="mw-redirect" title="Aphrodite of Cnidus">Cnidian Venus</a> both in its nobility and in the wrong it had endured, as a certain main from <a href="/wiki/Rhodes" title="Rhodes">Rhodes</a> had fallen in love with it and left a visible trace of his love <i>(vestigium amoris)</i>; Goffen, <i>Renaissance Rivals,</i> p. 96.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-45"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-45">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Deborah Parker, <i>Michelangelo and the Art of Letter Writing</i> (Cambridge University Press, 2010), p. 11.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-46"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-46">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Goffen, <i>Renaissance Rivals</i>, p. 95.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-47"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-47">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Estelle Lingo, <i>François Duquesnoy and the Greek Ideal</i> (Yale University Press, 2007), p. 61.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-48"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-48">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">John L. Varriano, <i>Caravaggio</i> (Penn State Press, 2006), pp. 57, 130.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-49"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-49">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Macioe, "Caravaggio and the Role of Classical Models," p. 436–438.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-50"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-50">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Varriano, <i>Caravaggio</i>, pp. 22, 123.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-51"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-51">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">David R. 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fêtes de Paphos</a></i> (1751, Cassanéa de Mondonville)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Amor_und_Psyche" title="Amor und Psyche">Amor und Psyche</a></i> (1800, Abeille)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Sculpture</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Marlborough_gem" title="Marlborough gem">Marlborough gem</a> (c. 1st century AD)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Cupid_and_Psyche_(Capitoline_Museums)" title="Cupid and Psyche (Capitoline Museums)">Cupid and Psyche</a></i> (1st or 2nd century copy)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Psyche_Revived_by_Cupid%27s_Kiss" title="Psyche Revived by Cupid's Kiss">Psyche Revived by Cupid's Kiss</a></i> (1787, Canova)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Cupid_and_Psyche_(Thorvaldsen)" title="Cupid and Psyche (Thorvaldsen)">Cupid and Psyche</a></i> (1807, Thorvaldsen)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" 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Her Sisters Her Gifts from Cupid">Psyche Showing Her Sisters Her Gifts from Cupid</a></i> (1753, Fragonard)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Cupid_Crowned_by_Psyche" title="Cupid Crowned by Psyche">Cupid Crowned by Psyche</a></i> (1790, Greuze)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Psyche_Abandoned_(painting)" title="Psyche Abandoned (painting)">Psyche Abandoned</a></i> (1795, David)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Cupid_and_Psyche_(G%C3%A9rard)" title="Cupid and Psyche (Gérard)">Cupid and Psyche</a></i> (1798, Gérard)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Love_and_Psyche_(David)" title="Love and Psyche (David)">Love and Psyche</a></i> (1817, David)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Psyche_Looking_at_Love" title="Psyche Looking at Love">Psyche Looking at Love</a></i> (1885, Rodin)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/L%27Amour_et_Psych%C3%A9,_enfants" title="L'Amour et Psyché, enfants">L'Amour et Psyché, enfants</a></i> (1890, Bouguereau)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Bath_of_Psyche" title="The Bath of Psyche">The Bath of 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