Erotes

As Cupids are called in archeology multiple representations of the love god Eros as a decoration or ornament on trays or containers. Similar to Cupid, the Roman equivalent of Eros, one speaks in Roman art by cupids.

As images of the celestial love the naked boy diving initially also in Christian art still on, for example as a fisher of men in the mosaics of Aquileia or as grape pickers in the coffin of Helena in the Vatican Museums. As another example of early Christian representation of Noah sarcophagus is to name in Trier, where Noah, who just welcomed the returning dove, two flower garlands Platting Cupids flanked. (Rhenish State Museum Trier)

During the Baroque period, they return as ubiquitous Putten again.

• Archaeological technical term
• Ancient Art
• Archaeology ( Classical Antiquity)
• Ornament ( component )
• Cupid