Essays on Cupid

When analyzing and comparing two works of art, there are many aspects that one must take into account, especially if they belong to different mediums. Even though there may be many differences, one can still find similarities between two masterpieces. This is more significant if they belong to the same historical and ideological context, as in the case of Sandro Botticelli’s painting “The Birth of Venus” and Agnolo Poliziano's poem “Stanze per la Giostra”. They were both important exponents of the Renaissance’s humanist movement, which sought to recall the importance of man, including the rationality and mythology ...

The Winged Protective Deity or Winged Genii is a frequent topic in Assyrian art. They are usually depicted with wings and long beards. Some even have the heads of birds. They tend to be displayed in palaces. They were originally seen as being associated with the god Enki and came from a religion that started with the Akkadian’s. The Winged Protective Spirit is seen as a purified human. On the other hand, Cupid Eros is the representation of youth and love. This paper will look at and compare the Assyrian Winged Protective Deity and Cupid Eros. The Winged ...

Titian’s and Peter Paul Rubens’s Venus and Adonis

The essay looks at Rubens and Titian version of Venus and Adonis and makes a comparison of their style. While Rubens and Titian version of Venus and Adonis, Rubens’s picture is typically Baroque. Rubens was greatly influenced by Titian and copied his version of Venus and Adonis. The story behind Venus and Adonis is derived from Ovid's Metamorphoses. The goddess Venus is shown clinging to her mortal lover, the handsome young Adonis, whom she is infatuated with. Venus attempts to stop her lover from going hunting. But hunting is a passion with Adonis and he knew that it ...

The poem opens with Juno who is the supreme goddess and who is angry. Aeneas is going away from Troy because of its destructions by the Greeks. He recuperates his strength and his remaining men and sets on a journey towards Italy in order to set up a new home. Juno is angry because she favors Carthage and there is an ancient prophecy saying that the Trojan race will one day ruin this city. The trip has many dangers on the way and Juno is also angry at Trojans because Paris announced that Venus is the most beautiful goddess ...

Nothing is eternal. Everything is subject to extinction. Nevertheless, the ruining effect of time pays particular merci to those items, which represent art in its transparent implication. A reasonable question flows out of it: what do we call “the real art”? What does it look or feelfeels like? In my own consideration, the “real art” is marked out for eternity, which stems from the immortal and everlasting character of the ideas objectified in artistic items. Therefore, art itselfthis is just a dainty imagethe power of eternityidea which makes artistic items live on through centuries. Within the frameworks of ...