Suburani

33. AMOR

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A winged man with a beard kisses a winged woman who is sitting on his knee. Around them is a decorative arch in reds and greens.

Fresco from Pompeii showing the mythical lovers Cupid and Psyche.

A fresco with two women looking into the distance. The woman at the front holds a writing-tablet in her left hand and holds a stylus to her looks with her right.

In this fresco, from the theater at Herculaneum, a woman holds an open writing tablet in her left hand, and a stylus in her right. Behind her stands another woman.

A fresco with a circular portrait showing a woman holding a writing-tablet in her left hand and holds a stylus to her looks with her right. She has a gold hairnet and gold earrings.

A portrait of a woman holding a writing tablet and stylus. The woman is sometimes referred to as the Greek poet Sappho, although her true identity is unknown.

A fresco with a circular portrait showing a young man holding a scroll. He has a crown of leaves around his head.

A portrait of a man holding a scroll.

A modern bridge overlooking a river. Attached to the metal bars on the bridge are hundreds of padlocks.

The Butchers’ Bridge in Ljubljana, Slovenia, where hundreds of couples have attached padlocks as a symbol of their love.

A sheet of paper with elaborate writing. An illustration at the top shows men pushing a giant horse towards city walls. Another small illustration below shows a man carrying an older man while a child follows.

A manuscript of Vergil’s ‘Aeneid’, copied in around ad 1500, probably produced for Ludovico Agnelli, Bishop of Cosenza.

A painting showing an ancient stone theater. On the benches on the left sit a group of young women wearing long dresses. They are watching a male performer who sits on the right of the painting. he is sitting on a wooden chair and playing an instrument like a lyre.

In this painting, the poet Sappho sits and listens to the poet Alcaeus as he plays the kithara. The scene is imagined as taking place on the island of Lesbos, although the seating is based on the marble seating of the Theatre of Dionysus in Athens. Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema painted many scenes from the classical world. He completed this work in 1881.

A high-sided bowl, colored black with figures picked out in red. There are two woman standing on the left listening to a woman seated on the right, playing a lyre.

This bowl was used for mixing wine and was made in Greece in the fifth century bc. It has been suggested that the seated woman playing the lyre could be Sappho.

A wall covered in modern graffiti in different colors, layered on top of one another.

Graffiti on the wall of Juliet’s house, the setting of Shakespeare’s ‘Romeo and Juliet’, in Verona.

A marble statue showing a couple reclining on a couch. He is topless and she wears a long dress. Her face has no features and is still uncarved.

This lid of a marble sarcophagus is carved in the form of the deceased couple. The man and woman are represented as semi-divine: his bare chest and the river reed in his left hand suggest he is a river god, and the ears of wheat in her right hand depict her as a personification of Earth. The man’s face has been sculpted in his likeness, whereas the woman’s has been left unfinished, perhaps because he predeceased her and nobody completed her portrait after her death.

A black and white image of a funerary monument. It has a carved portrait of a young girl and below text carved into the stone, all in capital letters.

Monument to Claudia Pieris.

A marble statue of a young woman with a veil wrapped around her shoulders and over her head. She casts her head down to the side.

The Roman woman represented in this statue covers her head with a veil as a mark of modesty.

A bronze statuette showing a nude woman with a crown holding something in her right hand. On her left side stands a small child with wings.

A bronze statuette, about 30 cm high, showing Venus with her son Cupid.

A marble statue of a nude boy with wings. He is holding a bow between his hads and bending it.

A marble statue of Cupid bending his bow.

A painted scene of a sun setting over a classical city. In the center is a river with boats on. On either side are buildings with marble columns and a marble arch.

'Dido Building Carthage’, by Joseph Mallord William Turner, was painted in 1815. It was based on John Dryden’s English translation of Vergil’s ‘Aeneid’. Dido stands near the front on the left overseeing building works and Aeneas stands nearby in full armour.

A painting of a woman reclining back on a couch draped in red fabric. On her left side a woman kneels and weeps at her feet. Above her head a female figure emerges from the sky and holds a lock of her hair.

‘Dido on the Funeral Pyre’, by Henry Fuseli, was painted in 1781. Dido’s sister Anna grieves at the dead queen’s feet. Above, the goddess Iris, sent by Juno, cuts a lock of Dido’s hair to free her soul from her body.

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