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 )
Depictions of nudity the Amores, or "amorini" in the later terminology of art history, the equivalent of the Greek erotes. Cupids are a frequent motif of both Roman art and later Western art of the classical tradition. In the 15th century, the iconography of Cupid starts to become indistinguishable from the putto. Cupid continued to be a popular figure in the Middle Ages, when under Christian influence he often had a dual nature as Heavenly and Earthly love. In the Renaissance, a renewed interest in classical philosophy endowed him with complex allegorical meanings. Raphael, for example, made paintings of nude putti, sometimes incorrectly