Do the proportions on Cupid’s body seem a little weird to anyone else? I’ve never looked at this painting long enough before to notice this, but his upper body seems twisted at an impossible angle, compared to his lower. Maybe this is just so the shapeliness of his marvelous, marble-ous buns can be more completely enjoyed by the viewer. (Now I’m starting to feel a little like Dan Aykroyd in that skit where he plays a lecherous “art critic”.)
If you’re interested, I offer a fictional reason for Cupid’s proportions in my historical novel “Cupid and the Silent Goddess”, which imagines how the painting might have been created in Florence in 1544-5.
Again with the breasts, Lane? Just kidding!
Do the proportions on Cupid’s body seem a little weird to anyone else? I’ve never looked at this painting long enough before to notice this, but his upper body seems twisted at an impossible angle, compared to his lower. Maybe this is just so the shapeliness of his marvelous, marble-ous buns can be more completely enjoyed by the viewer. (Now I’m starting to feel a little like Dan Aykroyd in that skit where he plays a lecherous “art critic”.)
I think it has to do with the unlikely distance between his shoulder (under her armpit) and his head (kissing her). That’s some long neck.
wow a picture this perverse and filled with incident can only attract two comments.
tgw is dying . . .
If you’re interested, I offer a fictional reason for Cupid’s proportions in my historical novel “Cupid and the Silent Goddess”, which imagines how the painting might have been created in Florence in 1544-5.
See:
http://www.twentyfirstcenturypublishers.com/index.asp?PageID=496
hey alan, sorry the link takes a while to load so i haven’t seen it yet,
but thanks for that, are you an art historian?
oh and Tim, thanks, and swells 2.
this is one of my all time favorite paintings and the bodily proportions are just part of it.
it’s the whole tounge on action between the grown lady and a BIG baby (fer chrissakes!)