Putto the events depicted in narrative paintings. There are two popular forms of the putto as the main subject of a work of art in 16th-century Italian Renaissance art: the sleeping putto and the standing putto with an animal or other object. Putti, cupids, and angels (see below) can be found in both religious and secular art from the 1420s in Italy, the turn of the 16th century in the Netherlands and Germany, the Mannerist period and late Renaissance in France, and throughout Baroque ceiling frescoes. So many artists have depicted them that a list would be pointless, but among the
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