Word: cupidities
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...South Seas; there are several leaving for Spain to try to join up with the insurgent forces. Then again there are several Americans who will spend Christmas day on home soil. It is remarkable how the spirit of Christmas, somehow or other entangled with the devices of Cupid, works to take Americans home from abroad...
...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...
Tiziano Vecelli (c. 1477-1576), probably the greatest, certainly the most prolific of Venetian painters, piled up a great fortune, lived to be 99. He painted Chicago's Cupid at the age of 85. Announcing that he began to understand what painting meant only after he passed 90, in his later years he worked on seven or eight pictures at once, impatiently used his finger tips more than his brushes in spreading paint. For grandiloquent allegory Education of Cupid has few equals in the U. S., perhaps only Venus and the Lute Player, now in the Metropolitan, The Rape...
...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...