putti
- plural of putto.
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Rendered in pastel and charcoal on paper, the drawings also range from isolated portraits to lavish dreamscapes, populated with Renaissance putti and flowers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 16, 2017
Long golden fringe on the back of leather jackets gave the impression of putti wings.
From Washington Times ● May 30, 2017
It was created exactly a century before Berman’s closet, in 1882, and there is nothing not of great luxury in this richly patterned, gorgeously appointed boudoir, with its lavish woodwork and its painted frieze of frolicking putti.
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 8, 2017
That’s why one of the coolest things about the opening of the museum is that the putti are putting in an appearance at eye level.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 29, 2016
The putti, the bright heraldry, the play of colour, and the opulence of decoration, often distract one's eye from the effigy of the dead: and he, too, is often smiling.
From Donatello, by Lord Balcarres by Crawford, David Lindsay, Earl of
