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Cupid
The Roman god Cupid symbolically represents aspects of masculine love. The Greek equivalent are the Erotes, not Eros. Eros personifies the function of Divine Love. .
Cupid was portrayed by the Romans as an irresponsible adolescent. This child wielded arrows which delivered desire, obsession, and lust, but also spurned and rejected love . Cupid was also representative of sexual intercourse, he too like Venus, was worshipped as a fertility deity.
Observations
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- Anacreon - As Late I sought the Spangled Bowers
- Bayard Taylor - Poems of the Orient – Kamadeva
- Bouguereau - Cupid and Psyche
- Bouguereau - Le Guepier
- Cohen, Leonard - Alexandra leaving
- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor - Kisses
- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor - Reason for Love's Blindness
- Dante - Paradiso - Venus and love
- Denis - Cupid and Psyche
- Ovid - Metamorphoses - Cupid and Daphne
- Ovid - Metamorphoses - The Song of the Muses
- Poussin - Sleeping Venus and Cupid
- Von Stuck, Franz - 1887 Amor imperator
- Von Stuck, Franz - Cupid at the Masked Ball