The more commonly found form putti is the plural of the Italian word putto. Today, in Italian, putto means either toddler winged angel or, rarely, toddler boy. Psyche is a princess so beautiful that the goddess Venus becomes jealous. In revenge, she instructs her son Cupid to make her fall in love with a hideous monster; but instead he falls in love with her himself.
Psyche disobeys his orders not to attempt to look at him, and in doing so she loses him. Though Psyche is usually referred to in Roman mythology by her Greek name, her Roman name through direct translation is Anima. In Greek mythology, Hedone is personified as a goddess of pleasure, enjoyment, and delight, as the daughter born from the union of Eros personification of love and Psyche personification of the soul.
Her equivalent in Roman mythology is Voluptas. Aristotle gave the butterfly the name psyche , the Greek word for soul.
Many cultures relate butterflies to the human soul. One night Psyche lit a lamp and found that the figure at her side was the god of love himself. When a drop of oil from the lamp awakened him, he reproached Psyche and fled. In this plate made in Fabriano Cupid, placed in the centre, aims his arrow at Pluto who is shown in the lower right of the rim as he carries Proserpine off to his underworld kingdom. This engraving is from a suite representing the Legend of the Golden Fleece.
According to the Legend, written by Apollonius of Rhodes in the first half of the 3rd century BC, Jason arrived at Colchis to claim his inheritance by retrieving the Golden Fleece. According to the tale, the mortal Psyche was so beautiful that people began to treat her as a goddess. When Cupid saw the maiden her beauty made him stumble, and scratch his own leg with one of his powerful arrows.
As a consequence he fell in love with Psyche and took her to his magical palace where she was waited on in luxury by invisible maidens. There he visited her only after dark, never allowing her to see him. Curious to know who her lover was, one night Psyche took a lamp to view Cupid whilst he slept. But oil fell from the lamp onto Cupid who woke up and, angry at being disobeyed and discovered, vanished along with his palace from Pysche.
The tale continues, recounting the trials undertaken by the maiden in order to find her lover. We all know Cupid can make people fall in and out of love, but did you know he was once in love himself? In this tale, Cupid is a little older, a young man, so the idea of him in romantic love is a bit more palatable than picturing a chubby baby falling in love with a lady. Venus starts to miss all the attention and altar sacrifices, so she sends down her son, Cupid, to the unlucky beautiful girl, Psyche, fall in love with a gross monster.
Cupid begins to visit Psyche in dark every night but tells her she must never look at his face. Which she obviously does, so Cupid gets upset and leaves. Psyche searches everywhere for her mystery lover and finally asks Venus to help her find him.
First, Psyche has to sort a bunch of grain. No problem. Then she has to steal some fleece. For the last task, Psyche is sent with a box to the underworld to get some beauty from. She makes it to the underworld, gets the box of beauty, and all she has to do is not look in it, and bring it to Venus.
So she opens the box. By piercing their heart with an arrow, he causes individuals to fall deeply in love. The image of Cupid as a flying infant with a bow and arrow is the version that we're most familiar with to this day. Some legends also say that Cupid is known to change his mind a lot. Not only does he carry golden arrows to make someone fall in love, but he also carries another kind of arrow.
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