Love on the Wing Magnet Set

This set of two 2" x 3" magnets, with the images, Sappho Inspired by Love, by Angelica Kauffman, and Portrait of Madame de Bourbon-Conti as Venus, by Noel-Nicolas Coypel are two examples of putti in the Ringling collection.

The nude, chubby child-figures (with or without wings) that frequently appear in many paintings in the Ringling collection are collectively referred to as putti. Derived from the personification of love, or Eros (as pictured in Angelica Kauffman's, Sappho Inspired by Love) in Greek and Roman art, putti came to represent cherubim in Italian Renaissance paintings, and later to represent Cupid in revivals of classical mythological subjects in art.