Galeriewerk Woermann Mappe 06 02

This sketch depicts a nude, athletic youth identified as Cupid, shown in a dynamic airborne pose. He holds a bow across his torso and looks upward with an open mouth, while a faint secondary figure is sketched in the background. The work exhibits the soft line-work characteristic of High Renaissance figure studies.

In the Renaissance Neoplatonic tradition championed by figures like Marsilio Ficino, Amor (Eros) was viewed as a cosmic force that drives the soul's ascent toward divine beauty. This figure represents the 'daemonic' intermediary between the human and the divine realms, a central concept in Renaissance philosophical magic and theurgy.