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Francesco Gessi (1588-1649), Tre Puttini Feriti, c 1620, Italian. Oil on canvas. 70.5x89 cm. Courtesy of the Patrick and Beatrice Haggerty Museum of Art, Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wis (http://www.marquette.edu/haggerty); museum purchase, the David C. Scott Foundation Fund.

From earliest times putti (Latin putus, a little man) are common enough figures in the visual arts. Loosely connected to the notions of both angelic spirits and romantic love, and once depicted as winged youths, by the time of the Renaissance they had devolved into little more than chubby infants, sometimes winged, sometimes not, sometimes mischievous with bow and arrow, sometimes purely angelic witnesses to heavenly scenes. What is not common in the visual arts is the depiction of wounded or dead putti such as are shown in Tre Puttini Feriti (cover) by the 17th-century Bolognese painter Francesco-Giovanni Gessi (1588-1649). Painted sometime around 1620, the work, . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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