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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bronwen, post: 2169679, member: 5833&quot;]The sculptor known as Clodion made a whole career doing &#039;Bacchic&#039; subjects.&nbsp; If you Google his work, you&#039;ll see how even museums &amp; big auction houses call these little figures &#039;putti&#039; much of the time.&nbsp; Here&#039;s a case of both the winged &amp; the unwinged being lumped together by that name:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/collections/object/229684?position=1" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/collections/object/229684?position=1" rel="nofollow">https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/collections/object/229684?position=1</a></p><p><br /></p><p>When they appear in allegorical tableaux they are sometimes called geniuses.&nbsp; You also see them described as children, but what I see are babies engaged in activities beyond what any real baby could do.</p><p><br /></p><p>The dictionaries seem all to be copying one from another, that originally putti were, like the original meaning of the word in Italian, little boys &amp; progressed in art from the profane to the sacred, becoming no different from cherubs.</p><p><br /></p><p>But scratching my head over:&nbsp; &#039;in Baroque art the putto came to represent the omnipresence of God.&#039;&nbsp; The baroque was the absolute heyday of the little wingless mischievous ones.&nbsp; They were just as present in art of the day as the winged ones.&nbsp; When did they get the name putto taken away from them?</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m starting a Putto Rights movement!</p><p><br /></p><p>[USER=6808]@sunday silence[/USER] What word did you really mean?&nbsp; They look too prosperous to be peasants&nbsp; Is he eating porridge?&nbsp; What&#039;s the woman doing with that goose?&nbsp; Not my field (as you can tell).&nbsp; What are these serving pieces called/used for?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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