Series[UMA-SRE-20140045] MAJOR WORKSAccession[2014.0038] GERMAINE GREER ARCHIVEIdentifierUMA-ITE-2014004500406Scope and ContentImages, some unidentified, of paintings and sculptures of Cupid or Eros, including Cupid and Psyche. Some depictions are from classical art and later are by many artists including Jacques-Louis David, B Thorvaldsen, Julia Margaret Cameron, Rodin, Simeon Solomon, George Watts, Edward Burne-Jones, Henry Fuseli, Pierre-Paul Prud'hon, Benjamin West, Francois-Edouard Picot, William-Adolphe Bouguereau, Bartholomeus Spranger, Guido Reni, Caravaggio, Orazio Riminaldi, Ippolito Scarsella, Louis Lagrenee. Images are in formats including black and white and colour photocopies, colour photographs, colour plates (some cut from catalogues), print outs of web pages; many sheets have annotations by GG. Folder includes photocopies of book and article extracts about Cupid; Cupid and Psyche in Renaissance painting; information on the artists and paintings. The folder also contains 4 pages of handwritten notes on A4 square lined paper sheet by GG; email to GG (appears to be estray). Correspondent: Kirsty Senior, Southwark Council re GG support for Blue Plaque for Mary Wollstonecraft. Subjects: The Boy; The Beautiful Boy; Cupid (Art); Young men in art; Masculine beauty (Aesthetics); Mythology in artAccess StatusAccess restrictions applyRequest TypeRequest unitUnit2014.0045 Unit 0037
Greer, Germaine, The Boy - Classical Cupid (c.2001-c.2002), [UMA-ITE-2014004500406]. University of Melbourne Archives, accessed 19/03/2026, https://archives.library.unimelb.edu.au/nodes/view/344376