An ode to Amore Dormiente
Love by traditional inkling:
A mischievous child with eyes twinkling.
Imagine instead
love lying half dead.
What was Caravaggio thinking?
Composed on AHA Spring Course, 08/2/11
The painting is Caravaggio’s ‘Sleeping Cupid’, painted in 1608 when the artist was based in Malta. It now hangs in the Pitti Palace in Florence.
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