I know nothing about what motivated Bartolomeo Manfredi in 1613 when he painted “Cupid Chastised,” which hangs in the Art Institute of Chicago. But I suspect his intentions might not have been ...

While the exact reason why Cupid was edited out of 'Girl Reading a Letter at an Open Window' may never be known, art historians speculate that the overpainting may have resulted from 'altered ...

A row has broken out over plans to destroy a hidden series of Victorian portraits at the Royal Academy of Art to reveal an 18th ... which depicts the marriage of Cupid and Psyche, dates back ...