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 )
Putto of Aphrodite or Venus; the Roman, genius, a type of guardian spirit; or sometimes the Greek, daemon, a type of messenger spirit, being halfway between the realms of the human and the divine. Putti are a classical motif found primarily on child sarcophagi of the 2nd century, where they are depicted fighting, dancing, participating in bacchic rites, playing sports, etc. The putto disappeared during the Middle Ages and was revived during the Quattrocento.The revival of the figure of the putto is generally attributed to Donatello, in Florence in the 1420s, although there are some earlier manifestations (for example the tomb