Putto Who", infants of the species Weeping Angels appear as putti. In the 1st-person shooter "Team Fortress 2", the "Meet the Pyro" video has the BLU Team appear as putti in Pyroland (The Pyro's vision). In the 2003 video game "Drakengard", a group of malevolent god-like figures known as the Watchers appear as putti. The historiography of this subject matter is very short. Many art historians have commented on the importance of the putto in art, but few have undertaken a major study. One useful scholarly examination is Charles Dempsey's "Inventing the Renaissance Putto". Putto A putto (; plural putti )
Putto Putto A putto (; plural putti ) is a figure in a work of art depicted as a chubby male child, usually naked and sometimes winged. Originally limited to profane passions in symbolism, the putto came to represent the sacred cherub (plural cherubs) (plural "cherubim"); and in the Baroque period of art, the putto came to represent the omnipresence of God. A putto representing a cupid is also called an amorino (plural amorini). The more commonly found form "putti" is the plural of the Italian word "putto". The Italian word comes from the Latin word "putus", meaning "boy" or "child".