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Cupids (Art)

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  • Philippe Ricord. Coloured wood engraving (?), 1867, after A. Gill.
  • A putto with an arrow in his heart is asking a putto who is holding a urine flask for help; comparing love to medical treatment of a wound. Engraving, 16--.
  • Venus (Aphrodite) carried on the waves by Triton, with the three Graces and with Cupids. Etching by P. Aquila after Annibale Carracci.
  • A naked man lies with his eyes closed with one foot touching a lit candle held by a golden cupid; he lies on his side floating above an array of gold gift-wrapped presents among other items with one arm raised towards a glowing gold star with a gold cloud bearing a cupid, a personified gold moon and a falling teddy bear; includes the message in French: 'AIDS is not dying once; we die of indifference every day'; one of a series of posters by the AIDS-Hilfe Schweiz/Aide Suisse contre le SIDA/Aiuto AIDS Svizerro. Colour lithograph by Etienne Francey and Daniel Ammann.
  • Cupid aims his bow with a condom as an arrow as he stands within a multicoloured flower with a red centre surrounded by the words 'Contigo Concon'; an advertisement by the Fundación Triángulo in a collaboration with the Comunidad de Madrid. Colour lithograph, ca. 1997.
  • Venus (Aphrodite) carried on the waves by Triton, with the three Graces and with Cupids. Etching by P. Aquila after Annibale Carracci.
  • Cupids in a sailing boat, representing the element water. Stipple engraving by A. Cardon, 1802, after A.W. Devis.
  • A marble vase placed on a pedestal. Etching by G.B. Piranesi, ca. 1770.
  • A naked man lies with his eyes closed with one foot touching a lit candle held by a golden cupid; he lies on his side floating above an array of gold gift-wrapped presents among other items with one arm raised towards a glowing gold star with a gold cloud bearing a cupid, a personified gold moon and a falling teddy bear; includes the message in German: 'excluded because of AIDS'; one of a series of posters by the AIDS-Hilfe Schweiz/Aide Suisse contre le SIDA/Aiuto AIDS Svizerro. Colour lithograph by Etienne Francey and Daniel Ammann.
  • Eno's "Fruit Salt" : May, 1938.
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