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
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