Galeriewerk Woermann Mappe 06 03

The drawing shows a winged child in a dynamic pose, with his back turned to the viewer and arms raised as if in flight or reaching. Finely rendered hatching defines the rounded forms of the limbs and the texture of the feathered wings. This image is a late 19th-century facsimile of a Renaissance study attributed to either Raphael or his pupil Giulio Romano.

In the Neoplatonic tradition revived in the Renaissance, Cupid (Amor) represents the intermediary power of Love that drives the soul toward divine contemplation. This figure reflects the period's interest in the 'furor poeticus' or divine madness associated with erotic and spiritual inspiration as described by Florentine philosophers.