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Suetonius, Caligula 7; Robert Turcan, The Gods of Ancient Rome (Routledge, 2001; originally published in French 1998), p. 18. Earlier in his career, Caravaggio had challenged contemporary sensibilities with his "sexually provocative and anti-intellectual" Victorious Love, also known as Love Conquers All (Amor Vincit Omnia), in which a brazenly naked Cupid tramples on emblems of culture and erudition representing music, architecture, warfare, and scholarship. [50] Roshen Dalal (2014). Hinduism: An Alphabetical Guide. Penguin Books. ISBN 9788184752779. Entry: "Kama"

Dominic Perring, "'Gnosticism' in Fourth-Century Britain: The Frampton Mosaics Reconsidered," Britannia 34 (2003), p. 108. 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. [31] Cupid and dolphins [ edit ] Cupid Riding on a Dolphin (1630) by Erasmus Quellinus II Mother Venus could not object to the marriage now, but simply danced, as she does finely, in the banquet that followed, where Psyche was served the drink of the gods and became immortal. Psyche was thence formally married to Cupid the Roman god of love. Cupid and Psyche depicted as children

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Psyche was nearly dead when the god Cupid found her again. Out of her incurable curiosity, Psyche looked into a secret box from Hell whose deadly content cast her into a deep sleep. Fortunately the Roman god Cupid was able to wipe this affliction off her. Cupid sleeping became a symbol of absent or languishing love in Renaissance poetry and art, including a Sleeping Cupid (1496) by Michelangelo that is now lost. [42] 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 Lorenzo de' Medici since 1488. [43] In the 1st century AD, Pliny had described two marble versions of a Cupid (Eros), one at Thespiae and a nude at Parium, where it was the stained object of erotic fascination. [44] Fabio Silva Vallejo, Mitos y leyendas del mundo (Spanish), 2004 Panamericana Editorial. ISBN 9789583015762 Geoffrey Miles, Classical Mythology in English Literature: A Critical Anthology (Routledge, 1999), p. 24.

John R. Clarke, Art in the Lives of Ordinary Romans: Visual Representation and Non-Elite Viewers in Italy, 100 B.C.-A.D. 315 (University of California Press, 2003), p. 89. Cicero, Against Verres 4.2–4; David L. Balch, "From Endymion in Roman Domus to Jonah in Christian Catacombs: From Houses of the Living to Houses for the Dead. Iconography and Religion in Transition," in Commemorating the Dead: Texts and Artifacts in Context. Studies of Roman (De Gruyter, 2008), p. 281; Anna Clark, Divine Qualities: Cult and Community in Republican Rome (Oxford University Press, 2007), p. 177. In the later classical tradition, Cupid is most often regarded as the son of Venus and Mars, whose love affair represented an allegory of Love and War. [14] The duality between the primordial and the sexually conceived Eros accommodated philosophical concepts of Heavenly and Earthly Love even in the Christian era. [15] Attributes and themes [ edit ] A blindfolded, armed Cupid (1452/66) by Piero della Francesca Cupid's arrows [ edit ] The god of love (Cupid) shoots an arrow at the lover, from a 14th-century text of the Roman de la Rose.In Lucretius' physics of sex, cupido can represent human lust and an animal instinct to mate, but also the impulse of atoms to bond and form matter. [69] An association of sex and violence is found in the erotic fascination for gladiators, who often had sexualized names such as Cupido. [70] In his portrayals Eros was either a full-grown man or chubby little child who doesn’t grow up. On the other hand, the Roman love god blossomed out to become a handsome young man. How beautiful was the Roman god of love? The god Cupid depicted with eagle wings

Two of the major planets in our solar system bear the names of Cupid’s mother Venus and his father Mars. Although Cupid is never seen, when the weather conditions are exactly right, both of these planets can be seen in the sky after dark or whenever a planetarium is open to visitors. In Greek Mythology, Cupid was known as ‘ Eros‘ who was portrayed as a slender young boy with wings; however, following the Hellenistic Age that ended about 31BC when Rome conquered Greece, he was portrayed as the chubby little boy we are most familiar with especially around Valentine’s Day.

In the poetry of the Archaic period, Eros was represented as a studly immortal who was irresistible to both man and gods. But by the Hellenistic period, he was increasingly portrayed as a playful, mischievous child. Because of his associations with love, 19th-century Victorians—credited with popularizing Valentine's Day and giving the holiday its romantic spin—began depicting this cherubic version of Cupid on Valentine’s Day cardsina trend that haspersisted until this day. This introduction is based on the entry on "Cupid" in The Classical Tradition, edited by Anthony Grafton, Glenn W. Most, and Salvatore Settis (Harvard University Press, 2010), pp. 244–246. In another allegory, Cupid’s mother, Venus (Aphrodite), became so jealous of the beautiful mortal Psyche that she told her son to induce Psyche to fall in love with a monster. Instead, Cupid became so enamored with Psyche that he married her—with the condition that she could never see his face. Eventually, Psyche’s curiosity got the better of her and she stole a glance, causing Cupid to flee in anger. After roaming the known world in search of her lover, Psyche was eventually reunited with Cupid and granted the gift of immortality. Edward Morris, Public Art Collections in North-West England: A History and Guide (Liverpool University Press), 2001, p. 19

Widely popular on Valentines Day, the winged cupid may not seem like a god; an angel perhaps, but no more. However, Cupid is no angel, and is certainly no cherub. Cupid was the god of love in Ancient Roman mythology.

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Cupid," The Classical Tradition, p. 245; Stefania Macioe, "Caravaggio and the Role of Classical Models," in The Rediscovery of Antiquity: The Role of the Artist (Collegium Hyperboreum, 2003), pp. 437–438. The ancient Roman Cupid was a god who embodied desire, but he had no temples or religious practices independent of other Roman deities such as Venus, whom he often accompanies as a side figure in cult statues. [14] A Cupid might appear among the several statuettes for private devotion in a household shrine, [54] but there is no clear distinction between figures for veneration and those displayed as art or decoration. [55] This is a distinction from his Greek equivalent, Eros, who was commonly worshipped alongside his mother Aphrodite, and was even given a sacred day upon the 4th of every month. [56] Roman temples often served a secondary purpose as art museums, and Cicero mentions a statue of "Cupid" (Eros) by Praxiteles that was consecrated at a sacrarium and received religious veneration jointly with Hercules. [57] An inscription from Cártama in Roman Spain records statues of Mars and Cupid among the public works of a wealthy female priest ( sacerdos perpetua), and another list of benefactions by a procurator of Baetica includes statues of Venus and Cupid. [58] The theme was also expressed as the triumph of Cupid, as in the Triumphs of Petrarch. [53] Roman Cupid [ edit ] Fragmentary base for an altar of Venus and Mars, showing cupids handling the weapons and chariot of the war god, from the reign of Trajan (98–117 AD) The story was first told about Eros in the Idylls of Theocritus (3rd century BC). [26] It was retold numerous times in both art and poetry during the Renaissance. The theme brought the Amoretti poetry cycle (1595) of Edmund Spenser to a conclusion, [27] and furnished subject matter for at least twenty works by Lucas Cranach the Elder and his workshop. [28] The German poet and classicist Karl Philipp Conz (1762–1827) framed the tale as Schadenfreude ("taking pleasure in someone else's pain") in a poem by the same title. [29] In a version by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, a writer of the German Enlightenment, the incident prompts Cupid to turn himself into a bee: In both Greek and Roman Mythology, Cupid always had a bow and arrow which he used to shoot the power of love wherever he wanted it to go. Some early artists pictured Cupid as being blindfolded. According to Shakespeare, the reason was because as a chubby little boy, Cupid often changed his feelings about things especially those having to do with love.