Measuring 2.90 by 3.77 metres, the drawing includes studies of a female figure with children, a seated male figure and a podgy winged baby, or 'putto', as well as various sketches of arms and a right hand. From Wordnik.com. [Michelangelo sketches of Sistine Chapel to be displayed in Italy] Reference
Beside her, a putto sits on a stone-cut wheel, his back to an unidentifiable stone monument, from which hangs a balance, an hourglass, and a bell. From Wordnik.com. [The Art Thief] Reference
At lower left, one putto sits wedged between a sheaf of wheat that rests upon a pile of game, and grape vines surmounted by a cluster of hanging fowl. From Wordnik.com. [Alexis Soyer and the Rise of the Celebrity Chef] Reference
On reflection, I would like to add that my point was pointed to the need to first designate blight, accrue the property, and then see what purpose the assembled plot could be putto. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Is the Debate Over Eminent Domain “Empty and Incoherent”?] Reference
The organ from "Saint-Roch, Paris IV" 2009 is shown in a 60-by-50-inch print that does justice to its grandeur, the steel pipes, the gilded putto with a viol, the bas-relief angel playing a bagpipe on one side of the supporting balcony and the angel with a keyboard on the other side, and the ornate clock keeping time high on top of it all. From Wordnik.com. [Where Man Has His Place] Reference
"Love at First Sight" is Kylie finest three and a half minutes putto record. From Wordnik.com. [Epinions Recent Content for Home] Reference
For by reafon of the fame tie King's Subjects, called to the faid Court, are putto. From Wordnik.com. [Memorial of the Most reverend father in God Thomas Cranmer,sometime lord archbishop of Canterbury : Wherein the history of the church, and reformation of it, during the primacy of the said archbishop, are greatly illustrated; and many singular matters relating thereunto, now first published (1694.)] Reference
"If there is any evidence that theprime minister was involved or knew about this, then he should be putto trial too.". From Wordnik.com. Reference
If you've ever stared at a painting and wanted to reach out and squeeze that adorable little putto, you'll soon have a chance to do it without getting arrested. From Wordnik.com. [Megite Technology News: What's Happening Right Now] Reference
When he speaks of himself in the same passage in the “Life of Salviati” as the “putto, che allora non aveva piu di nove anni,” he is making a mistake of at least three years in his own age. From Wordnik.com. [Giorgione]
Thayr surnames be putto lest any man hereafter shuld vsurpe any | | D iiij. | | cause of thayr prayse. From Wordnik.com. [The Pilgrimage of Pure Devotion] Reference
A putto is an innocent soul. From Wordnik.com. [Everything2 New Writeups] Reference
A putto sculpture loses a critical body part. From Wordnik.com. [theartblog] Reference
22) But meanwhile it came to the ear of the Cardinal how the putto was made in. From Wordnik.com. [Michael Angelo Buonarroti] Reference
Verrocchio, putto, 105. From Wordnik.com. [Donatello, by Lord Balcarres] Reference
St. John, bronze, 147; putto, bronze, from Siena, 114. From Wordnik.com. [Donatello, by Lord Balcarres] Reference
A putto, 178, 197, 221, 238, 240, 242, 256, 263, 271, 292. From Wordnik.com. [Michael Angelo Buonarroti] Reference
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