Series[UMA-SRE-20140045] MAJOR WORKSAccession[2014.0038] GERMAINE GREER ARCHIVEIdentifierUMA-ITE-2014004500432Scope and ContentImages of artworks, some unidentified, depicting young boys, often as Cupid. The main content is a sequence of photocopied images with handwritten page numbers 4/1 to 4/26. Artists and sculptors in this sequence include B Thorvaldsen, William-Adolphe Bouguereau, Guido Reni, Dumont, Franz Anton Zauner, P Hasselberg, Glyn Philpot, Verocchio, Riminaldi, Caravaggio, Domenichino, Hendrick Terbrugghen. Many images in the folder are copies of images sourced and held in other folders. Images are in formats of black and white and colour photocopies and print outs from web pages. Some sheets have annotations by GG. The folder contains additional images, photocopied research material and 2 emails from the publisher re images and captions. The folder also contains laser print of typescript draft with word count, page numbered by hand 54-70, with typescript heading "The Castration of Cupid 5,893", unannotated. Correspondents: Wendy Gay, Thames & Hudson; Jenny Wilson, Thames & Hudson (page 1 missing). Subjects: The Boy; The Beautiful Boy; Cupid (Art); Masculine beauty (Aesthetics); Young men in art; Mythology in art; Authors and Publishers; Copy editingAccess StatusAccess restrictions applyRequest TypeRequest unitUnit2014.0045 Unit 0038
Greer, Germaine, The Boy - Castration of Cupid (c.2001-c.2002), [UMA-ITE-2014004500432]. University of Melbourne Archives, accessed 19/03/2026, https://archives.library.unimelb.edu.au/nodes/view/344402
