Amorino
photographic
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
photographic
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Dominant colour
Amorino is a photographic by Carlo Lorenzetti, depicting Putto, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This is a stone statue of a small, smiling boy—called a putto—standing on a pedestal. He’s naked except for a leafy wreath on his head and a vine wrapped around his arm. One end of the vine curls into a small, sleeping face at his feet. The boy’s pose is relaxed, but the vine adds a playful twist. The statue looks like it’s made to look soft and rounded, not sharp. Check out the Victoria and Albert Museum to see more like this in person.
The photograph titled *Amorino* by Carlo Lorenzetti is mounted on green card and originates from a collection bequeathed by William Kineton Parkes in 1938. Parkes, a novelist, art historian, and librarian known for his work on sculpture, gathered the images by sending questionnaires to sculptors in the 1920s, with this photograph being one of the responses he received.
Read the full account in the museum source.
Carlo Lorenzetti roamed the streets of Rome with a camera and a bicycle, shooting black-and-white photos nobody asked for: stray cats, shutters half-open, a single glove on a café chair.
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