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Neither the Cupid nor the elegy is intrinsically different now, in the full glare of worldwide publicity, than a few weeks ago, when both enjoyed obscurity. The only thing that has changed is the attitude we are expected to bring to these objects. What we could safely ignore or overlook before now commands our reverent attention because the names Michelangelo and Shakespeare have been attached to them...
...LITTLE STATUE OF A NAKED Cupid blushed unseen, or largely so, for some 90 years in the same spot: a mansion on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue designed by Stanford White. In the 1950s the building was sold to the French government and became a quasi-public space entered daily by employees and visitors. There the Cupid still stood, looking like nothing more than a piece of Gilded Age gimcrackery...
...explanation, of course, is that an authority on 16th century Italian sculpture saw the Cupid statue in a different light one day and decided, after much study and research, that it was an early work by...Michelangelo. Once a sufficient number of other experts had given their support to this attribution, the announcement was made that transformed, at least tentatively, a bit of bric-a-brac into the only Michelangelo sculpture on U.S. soil...
...easy to see why people who make their living studying Michelangelo and Shakespeare should be agog at the possibility of more material to occupy their attention. But perhaps the marble Cupid's imaginary puzzlement may be shared by flesh-and-blood mortals with no vested career interests in the matter. What indeed is going on here...
...residence. He "had lots of friends who were English grad students who lived there" and visited them often. There he met future Dr. Jana Kiely, who had studied at the Sorbonne and planned on only staying in the States for a year. Obviously she had no idea what Cupid had in mind. The Kielys' first date was a picnic at the Singing Sands Beach in Manchesterby-the-Sea and apparently the sirens enchanted them. The Kielys now comfortably inhabit Apthorp House in Adams House...