Putto of Ilaria del Carretto, sculpted by Jacopo della Quercia in Lucca). Since then, Donatello has been called the originator of the putto because of the contribution to art he made in restoring the classical form of putto. He gave putto a distinct character by infusing the form with Christian meanings and using it in new contexts such as musician angels. Putti also began to feature in works showing figures from classical mythology, which became popular in the same period. Most Renaissance putti are essentially decorative and they ornament both religious and secular works, without usually taking any actual part in
A Family (painting) time and concerned with what was called "post-war British art" will remember the painting called "A Family".' Louis le Brocquy explains: 'I have always been fascinated by the horizontal monumentality of traditional Odalisque painting, the reclining woman depicted voluptuously by one Master after another throughout the history of European art - Titians' "Venus of Urbino", Velázquez' "Rokeby Venus" turning her back on the Spanish Court, Goya's "Maja" clothed and unclothed, Ingres' "Reclining Odalisque" in her seraglio and finally the great "Olympia" of Édouard Manet celebrating his favourite model, Victorine Meurent. My own painting "A Family" was conceived in 1950 in