Putti in a 1750 paiting by François Boucher, "Birth of Venus." (Venus is the big one--the little ones are the putti.) Image is in the public domain.
...well, not all putti, apparently. In Magnetic Rose, a couple of evil, or at least highly violent and poorly socialized, putti try to kill the protagonists...or at least one of them. (It's about a minute and a half into the youtube clip.)
And MightyIsis asks..."is this fair to putti?" Could Magnetic Rose be a misrepresentation of all putti? And, given that putti are, in fact, imaginitive works, closely related to cupids
and angels, doesn't this mean that they can't defend themselves?
Poor putti.Tree O' putti (not the name Dore would have used). Detail from an illustration of Orlando Furioso by Gustav Dore. Image is in the public domain.
2 comments:
Oh Mighty Isis, you forget those were not Putti, but instead they were machines manufactured to look like statues of Putti. Furthermore they were controlled by a warped computer. So this is not a slight to the putti, but instead a twisting of an other wise benevolent creature for cinematic impact. But maybe I lost my button again.
While I agree, I don;t think it matters _why_ they were killer putti. the fact that there is a representation of killer putti is enough to cause some alarm.
Poor putti.
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