The Cupid

Cupid’s arrows

Start the conversation with this unique piece that celebrates Cupid.

Did you know that Cupid carried two kinds of arrows, one with a sharp golden point, and the other with a blunt tip of lead. A person wounded by the golden arrow is filled with uncontrollable desire, but the one struck by the lead feels aversion and desires only to flee?

The use of these arrows is described by the Latin poet Ovid in the first book of his Metamorphoses. When Apollo taunts Cupid as the lesser archer, Cupid shoots him with the golden arrow, but strikes the object of his desire, the nymph Daphne, with the lead. Trapped by Apollo’s unwanted advances, Daphne prays to her father, the river god Peneus, who turns her into a laurel, the tree sacred to Apollo. It is the first of several unsuccessful or tragic love affairs for Apollo.

I myself have been wounded a few times by Cupid. Luckily, when Cupid took careful aim and hit me the final time I fell in Love with my wonderful wife, Margaret. Thank you Cupid.

Size: 36″ x 29″
Material: Cast Bonded Gypsum
Pigment: Iron Oxide Acrylic

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