Putto best-known are the sculptor Donatello and the painter Raphael. The two relaxed and curious putti who appear at the foot of Raphael's Sistine Madonna are often reproduced. They also experienced a major revival in the 19th century, where they gamboled through paintings by French academic painters, from Gustave Doré’s illustrations for "Orlando Furioso" to advertisements. The iconography of putti is deliberately unfixed, so that it is difficult to tell the difference between putti, cupids, and various forms of angels. They have no unique, immediately identifiable attributes, so that putti may have many meanings and roles in the context of art.
Putto Some of the more common associations are: A putto is the main character in the 2010 webcomic "The Sorrowful Putto of Prague" by James Stafford and A. J. Bernardo. In popular culture, putto is also used as a decorative art found on buildings, gardens, and greeting cards as a purveyor of love. A putto smoking a cigarette served as the cover art for Van Halen's album "1984". There is one adorning the main characters' wedding cake in Gustave Flauvert's novel, Madame Bovary. A putto is the protagonist of the 2000 third person shooter "Messiah". In the British TV series "Doctor