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On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. He is often portrayed as the son of the love goddess Venus and the god of war Mars. Cupid continued to be a popular figure in the Middle Ages, cupid valentine under Christian influence he often had a dual nature as Heavenly and Earthly love.

In the Renaissance, a renewed interest in classical philosophy endowed him with complex allegorical meanings. The Romans reinterpreted myths and concepts pertaining to the Greek Eros for Cupid in their own literature and art, and medieval and Renaissance mythographers conflate the two freely. In the Greek tradition, Eros had a dual, contradictory genealogy. At the same time, the Eros who was pictured as a boy or slim youth was regarded as the child of a divine couple, the identity of whom varied by source.

In Latin literature, Cupid is usually treated as the son of Venus without reference to a father. Seneca says that Vulcan, as the husband of Venus, is the father of Cupid. In the later classical tradition, Cupid is most often regarded as the son of Venus and Mars, whose love affair represented an allegory of Love and War. Cupid is winged, allegedly because lovers are flighty and likely to change their minds, and boyish because love is irrational. His symbols are the arrow and torch, “because love wounds and inflames the heart”. And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

Wings and no eyes figure unheedy haste. Because in choice he is so oft beguiled. Italian title La Primavera, Cupid is shown blindfolded while shooting his arrow, positioned above the central figure of Venus. Particularly in ancient Roman art, cupids may also carry or be surrounded by fruits, animals, or attributes of the Seasons or the wine-god Dionysus, symbolizing the earth’s generative capacity.