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Cupid and the Bride
CUPID, THE SMALL BLIND, n***d airborne pagan, flexes his bow and lets the arrow fly ... to strike love and devotion into the heart! The arrow is passion, the bow restraint.
Down the centuries Cupid has been represented in diverse ways, including as an adolescent. He was clear-sighted in Greek and Roman iconography as blindness was distinctly negative, symbolising death, infidelity and night. His wings represented the instability of amorous emotions, the arrows the incurable wounds inflicted upon the human soul by love.
Under the influence of moral interpreters since the thirteenth century, Cupid, who was not traditionally blind, entered the Middle Ages with the blindfold. At the same time he came to be shown as a small child with wings. The now blind baby with a
