putto

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• Guards at the National Gallery are often extremely knowledgeable about the art in their care, and this one so fascinated my daughter that she talked about that little pink putto and all it meant well into dinner.

  Academic text (2007)

• Then, go ahead, buy that big TV on the plastic wheels, and that gold putto.

  Fiction book (1996)

• Above the flower, the lines become supports for a little winged putto, who holds onto yet more curving lines as though they were stems.

  Academic text (2008)

• Another putto snuggles comfortably on the woman's lap and points toward the heavens.

  Blog text (28)

• The dynamic positions of the putto and Father Time indicate that they might fly off at any moment, in an apparent suggestion that Memory has little control over time and its tendency to make memories disappear.

  Academic text (2013)

• About halfway there, we found her up to her ears in a conversation with one of the guards about a small oval Italian Renaissance painting of a happy little putto.

  Academic text (2007)

• No way, she laughed, and with his putto lips folded around a kiss-shaped grin, he might well have been joking.

  Fiction book (2001)

• The little putto and his bird companion peering over the right border of the initial seem to thematize this active role of the viewer, and they underscore the dramatic association between the Baptist and the larger vinestem border into which he strides.

  Academic text (2008)

• The grouping of three figures (hairdresser, client, assistant) even repeats Honthorst's triad, with the hairdresser's assistant taking the place of the standing putto.

  Academic text (2011)

• Giovanbattista Pasqualini (1595-1631) made a print after Guercino in which Memoria is portrayed in the company of a putto and Father Time holding hourglasses (Fig. 18).

  Academic text (2013)

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