#putto

Collection: Lopez Suasso-de Bruijn collection

Lionel Royer (French, 1852–1926) Le Goût, 1907 Mairie du 10e arrondissement

Astrological Putti - with adjusted colors ⭐

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

Happy Valentines!

Gold. Warm, honey-thick gold pooling across old stone. A woman stands centered in a vine-covered niche, her right arm raised, fingers reaching toward a small winged figure in the upper left - a putto, round-cheeked, peering over the ledge with something between mischief and tenderness. It holds out an oval object, perhaps a mirror or wreath, and she stretches toward it. Her left hand hangs loose at her hip, relaxed, unbothered. Ivy climbs the wall behind them both, dark olive threads winding through the architecture. Her skin catches light from the left, soft and unbroken, porcelain against ochre. The shadows don't cut - they breathe, pooling gently beneath her raised arm, along her ribs, down to where the floor turns dark and wet and faintly reflective. At her feet: white lilies, fallen or placed, their petals impossibly clean against that damp ground. George William Joy painted this with the patience of someone arranging silence - every surface considered, every temperature deliberate. The warm skin, the cool green, the space between reaching and receiving. And flowers no one has picked up yet. Quelle: meisterdrucke.com

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

Little lamb putto painting.