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Cupid

deity sky Roman single tradition · 15

Cupid is a divine figure in Roman art who attends Venus and Mars as the good-looking couple. He appears in scenes depicting the union of Venus and Mars, serving as an attendant to the divine lovers.

↻ synthesized from 15 sources

When

First attested
800 BCE
Attested period
-800 – 2020
Historical notes
Opera performance.

Relationships

serves
Venus, Mars
co occurs with
Wōden, Freya, Luna, God, the Father, Ganymede, Momu, Endymion, Phoebus, Cynthia, Ceres, Proserpina, Ariadne, Neptune, Hebe, Aurora, Aquilon, Zéphyr, Narcissus, Echo, Clytie, Zephyrus, Three Graces, Voluptas, Castitas, Pulchritudo, Ketos, Vulcan, Ares, Aphrodite, Hephaestus, Concordia, Thor, Merlin, angels, Sol, Juno, Mercury, Jupiter, Saturn, Bacchus, Minerva, Pluto, Apollo, Artemis, Persephone, Flora, Chloris, Uranus, Aeneas
allied with
Hebe, Venus, Adonis, Three Graces
enemy of
Diana
syncretized with
Eros, Astrild, Turnu
child of
Venus

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Mentioned by

and 10 more

Sources

wikipedia (15)
  1. Mars (mythology)
  2. King Arthur (opera)
  3. Creation of the World (Raphael)
  4. Dido, Queen of Carthage (play)
  5. Les fêtes d'Hébé
  6. Le Réveil de Flore
  7. Les surprises de l'Amour
  8. The Testament of Cresseid
  9. Adonis Awakens
  10. The Death of Adonis (Rubens)
  11. The Empire of Flora
  12. Venus and Adonis (Veronese, Madrid)
  13. Primavera (Botticelli)
  14. L'Arianna
  15. Portland Vase

Source passages

“Scenes of Venus and Mars in Roman art often ignore the adulterous implications of their union, and take pleasure in the good-looking couple attended by Cupid or multiple Loves (amores).”

#10142 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5

“Roger North was most impressed by Charlotte Butler's singing of Cupid, describing it as "beyond anything I ever heard upon the stage", partly ascribing her success to "the liberty she had of concealing her face, which she could not endure should be so contorted as is necessary to sound well”

#15173 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001

“Venus, the goddess of love with Cupid holding a torch as the Evening Star (with Taurus and Libra). A French engraver, Nicolas Dorigny created a series of plates depicting the mosaics in 1695 for Louis, Duke of Burgundy.”

#20176 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001

“Teresa Gallagher as Anna/Juno and Andrew Wincott as Cupid.”

#38005 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001

“Hebe is harassed by the unwanted attentions of Momus. Cupid suggests she should escape with him to the banks of the River Seine to witness festivities celebrating the arts.”

#38011 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001