There is something really alien about these putto. I was once in Rome when I attended The Royal Academy in Copenhagen and my professor stopped before a painting of Tizian in the Galleria Borghese and pointed to a small putto with tiny, falcon wing in thick impasto paint - and said: "it is a quite revolting idea isn't it?"
It's like they're caught between being babies and people. Like the painters hadn't quite got down that the forms of babies are different. Or maybe it was on purpose, because they wanted to convey the divine intelligence of the angels?
Just viewed the image full size and noticed the milk spray coming out of the nipples! It's funny because it seems like such a serious painting and then the artist thought, "Milk lazers!!! Pew-pew-pew!"
And I'd like to know more about the pointy devil-squid monster being carried by the eagle.
I had to look up the word "putto." Thanks for growing my vocabulary. Next time I see someone with a loud unruly baby I'm going to say "Muzzle your putto, pronto!"
The Origin of the Milky Way by Tintoretto
Cool painting!
We used to believe in angels. Now we believe in aliens!
There is something really alien about these putto. I was once in Rome when I attended The Royal Academy in Copenhagen and my professor stopped before a painting of Tizian in the Galleria Borghese and pointed to a small putto with tiny, falcon wing in thick impasto paint - and said: "it is a quite revolting idea isn't it?"
It's like they're caught between being babies and people. Like the painters hadn't quite got down that the forms of babies are different. Or maybe it was on purpose, because they wanted to convey the divine intelligence of the angels?
Just viewed the image full size and noticed the milk spray coming out of the nipples! It's funny because it seems like such a serious painting and then the artist thought, "Milk lazers!!! Pew-pew-pew!"
And I'd like to know more about the pointy devil-squid monster being carried by the eagle.
I had to look up the word "putto." Thanks for growing my vocabulary. Next time I see someone with a loud unruly baby I'm going to say "Muzzle your putto, pronto!"