The ugliest cherub in the world?
This one?
Or this one?Both in the window of a cherub shop in Girona, Spain.
posted by Maalie at 4:51 pm
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Thursday, February 21, 2008
This one?Or this one?Both in the window of a cherub shop in Girona, Spain.
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28 Comments:
I think their correct name is putti.
I had a boyfriend once who collected them. I could never understand his obsession with them as they were ugly little buggers.
Do you believe in them?
I will when I catch one in my mist net.
I think they are both actually very beautiful. The bottom looks like I must have looked twenty minutes ago before I woke up.
Lorenzo, so the lack of shared obsession meant he was always the boyfriend but never the groom?
Their mothers are probably very proud :-)
Can they sing, play an instrument ... or do they just look gorgeous?
I loath both of them. They are like Spanish food... fat, and oily looking ahqahahahahahahahah!
The upper one is worse - looks like he has wind. The lower one is a little better - at least it manages a nap.
But I think the pictures I've seen are prettier. And the cutest are the little ones in Disney's Fantasia (Bethoven's Pastoral Symphony).
guicp
I just spat coffee all over my keyboard!
ahahahahahah! anon! :o)
The more I look at those cherubs, the more I like the look of the first one.
I think they look cute. I've never heard of putti, that's my new word for the day.
maybe putti could be suggested for the word imps
Ugh. Did you see the Baby Jesuses (sp?), angels and crucifictions too? Those shops abound in Spain / although they're not as tacky as the one in the Vatican. When we first moved here our house had been left full of religious icons which accidentally threw themselves out of the upstairs window.
Ha! You obviously never saw any of my little cherubs when they first entered the world..
(ps. I'm back, new site n'all.)
More like gargoyles I'm afraid.
more photos of things with wings!
you are too much, maalie!
Jenny once bought me a clockwork Jesus. His arms move up and down when you wind him up and he trundles over the floor.
My friend Mary bought me Nunzilla, this terrifying nun. When you wind her up she spits and sparks come out of her mouth.
Nunzilla sounds just wonderful!!!!!
As a lapsed Catholic I kinda like exploring churches overseas, contrary as that might seem. But the bits I have seen of Spanish Catholicism have so far been a bit too much for me. The things I found hardest to handle were the lifesize prone statues of a dead Jesus, placed as if he was in a glass coffin, with the feet protruding out one end for the faithful to kiss. I am sorry, but that is simply not me.
I vote for #1 being the best - #1 is a bit smushed looking.
what is "smushed" 1/2 mum? is that like being pissed? ahaha ;o)
(oops can I say that on this blog??)
Thanks for comments everyone. Yes, I've seen those religious effigies all over Spain. Even roadside shrines where you can leave a flower or a present for the Blessed Virgin Mary to bring you luck on your journey.
That is something that you might consider, Kiwi...
Simon: I don;t know what it means either, but you might get a clue here!
Simon, it seems to be a hybrid word of "pushed" and "smashed". There is a better place here.
To be honest maalie... a flower for the Virgin somewhere along the way is perfectly in keeping with my beliefs. (I did go to Lourdes you know.... in some odd ways I am quite Catholic;-)
good question!
personally,
i would not trust either...
:-)
i will be in barcelona in may.
what else to do in girona
as a side*trip
besides looking at ugly cherubs?
[[ i have storks and such
in my own backyard... ]]
plus,
if all food there is
fat and oily looking as simon says...
then what to eat?
can you become
my own ~rick steves~
and steer me i the best direction?
thanks ever-so.
BTW mate.. I was a bit "taken a back" when you told me about Butler!
Can we have some pretty pictures now of your feathered friends Maalie.
Butler? Have you got a butler at Maalie Court now?
I wonder where the tradition comes from though I guess it all has to do with love, and delivering those shots to the heart, those shots of love, I guess.
Better than images of Jesus and the saints, though, I guess as Icons they can be quite okay as windows of faith, though not part of my tradition. Nor are cherubs for that matter.
I'm a little late to this party but I'd have to say the topmost cherup or putti is definitely "butt ugly."
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