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putto
A putto (; plural putti (:ˈputti) or puttoes) is a figure in a work of art depicted as a chubby male child, usually nude and sometimes winged. Putti are commonly confused with, yet are completely unrelated to, cherubim. In the plural, "the Cherubim" refers to the biblical angels, which have four faces of different species and several pairs of wings; they are traditionally the second order of angels.〔(Link text ), dictionary.com〕 Putti are secular and represent a non-religious passion.〔Dempsey, Charles. ''Inventing the Renaissance Putto''. University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill and London, 2001.〕 However, in the Baroque period of art, the putto came to represent the omnipresence of God.〔 A putto representing a cupid is also called an amorino (plural amorini).
==Etymology==
The more commonly found form ''putti'' is the plural of the Italian word ''putto''. The Italian word comes from the Latin word ''putus'', meaning "boy" or "child". Today, in Italian, ''putto'' means either toddler winged angel or, rarely, toddler boy. It may have been derived from the same Indo-European root as the Sanskrit word "putra" (meaning "boy child", as opposed to "son"), Avestan ''puθra''-, Old Persian ''puça''-, Pahlavi (Middle Persian) ''pus'' and ''pusar'', all meaning 'son,' and the New Persian ''pesar'' 'boy, son.'
Putti, in the ancient classical world of art, were winged infants that were believed to influence human lives. In Renaissance art, the form of the putto was derived in various ways including the Greek Eros or Roman Amor/Cupid, the god of love and companion of Aphrodite or Venus; the Roman, genius, a type of guardian spirit; or sometimes the Greek, daemon, a type of messenger spirit, being halfway between the realms of the human and the divine.〔Struthers, Sally A. "Donatello's 'Putti': Their Genesis, Importance, and Influence on Quattrocento Sculpture and Painting. (Volumes I and II)." The Ohio State University, 1992. United States - Ohio: ''ProQuest Dissertations and Theses (PQDT)''. Web. 23 Oct. 2011.〕
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