Word: cupidities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Assumption of the Virgin. Last week Director Harshe had a third picture to share honors with this notable pair. At a reported price of $200,000, Institute Trustee Charles H. Worcester bought from Wildenstein & Co. and lent to the Museum for an indefinite period Titian's Education of Cupid...
...sumptuous color for which the great Venetian is famed, Education of Cupid shows a plump, blonde Venus handing a sheaf of arrows to a Cupid with blue-tipped wings, while a half-nude handmaiden looks on admiringly and two muscular brown satyrs hoist high in the air baskets of doves and fruit...
...While the boy Cupid snatches honey from the comb, a predatory bee stings his finger. So does the short and transitory delight which we pursue bring us woe for it is interwoven with sorrow and pain...
...Possibly the high spot of the whole exhibit is Lucas Cranach's famed Venus und Amor, the property of the Nűrnberg National Museum. On this panel medieval Artist Cranach shows a slim Venus, draped in a diaphanous veil wagging a warning finger at a pug-nosed Cupid who has pulled a honeycomb from a tree, and suffered severe bee stings as a result. In the upper right hand corner Medievalist Cranach appended his moral: Dum Puer Alveola Furatur Mella Cupido, Furanti Digit um Cuspite Ficit Apis. Sic Etiam Nobis Brevis et Peritura Voluptas Quam Petimus Tristi Mixta...
Died. Jean ("Young Cupid") Patou 47, onetime No. 1 French couturier and style dictator; of an apoplectic stroke; in Paris. A gambler and master showman, who died in poverty, he was the first Paris designer to use U. S. mannequins, in 1923 first re-introduced the long skirt...