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.
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