amorini

It was pleasant to wake up in Florence, to open the eyes upon a bright bare room, with a floor of red tiles which look clean though they are not; with a painted ceiling whereon pink griffins and blue amorini sport in a forest of yellow violins and bassoons.

A Room with a View 1924

Tracing the growth of the border is a pleasant pastime, a game of history in which amorini, grotesques and nymphs are the personages, and garlands of flowers their perpetual accessories, but first comes the time when there were no borders, the Middle Ages.

The Tapestry Book Helen Churchill Hungerford Candee 1905

Her eyes sought the monogram sculptured on the stone gate-pillars: 'E. L.' entwined in graceful curves on a rounded shield upheld by playful amorini.

A German Pompadour Being the Extraordinary History of Wilhelmine van Grävenitz, Landhofmeisterin of Wirtemberg 1905

Note how he hangs his swags, and swings his amorini, from the horizontal borders.

The Tapestry Book Helen Churchill Hungerford Candee 1905

Gods and goddesses were a necessary part of such compositions, and a continual playing among amorini, but such deities lived not upon Olympus, nor anywhere outside

The Tapestry Book Helen Churchill Hungerford Candee 1905

Mr. Bonner had been recommended to Lord Kitchener, who wanted amorini scattered about the leafy gardens at Broome.

The Mirrors of Downing Street Some Political Reflections by a Gentleman with a Duster Harold Begbie 1900

Drawings were made and approved: a few months afterwards the amorini were set up in the gardens.

The Mirrors of Downing Street Some Political Reflections by a Gentleman with a Duster Harold Begbie 1900

The great man, it appeared at last, wanted amorini the size of giants; a rather Rosherville taste.

The Mirrors of Downing Street Some Political Reflections by a Gentleman with a Duster Harold Begbie 1900

Over the gilt balustrade surmounting the cornice lolled the figures of fauns, bacchantes, nereids and tritons, hovered over by a cloud of amorini blown like rose-leaves across a rosy sky, while in the centre of the dome Apollo burst in his chariot through the mists of dawn, escorted by a fantastic procession of the human races.

The Valley of Decision Edith Wharton 1899

These delicious pagan amorini are the successors of the angelic putti of an earlier time, whom the Tuscan sculptors of the Quattrocento had already converted into more joyous and more earthly beings than their predecessors had imagined.

The Earlier Work of Titian Phillips, Claude 1897