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
Plural form of words ending in -us all fields, found "octopods", "octopi", and "octopodes" all stayed the same, but "octopuses" increased to 1054 papers. Indicating "octopuses" is the most preferred in the scientific record, whereas "octopodes" is never used. "Fowler's Modern English Usage" states that "the only acceptable plural in English is "octopuses,"" and that "octopi" is misconceived and "octopodes" pedantic. The term "octopod" (plural "octopods" or "octopodes") is taken from the taxonomic order Octopoda but has no classical equivalent. The collective form "octopus" is usually reserved for animals consumed for food. The situation with the word "platypus" is similar to that of "octopus"; the word is