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English: Cupid spurning riches - guercino - Guercino's painting depicts a youthful Cupid emptying a bag of gold coins, which are shown falling to the ground. The painting has been variously entitled Virtuous Cupid and Cupid spurning Riches. This confusion points to its unusual iconography. Items such as the single arrow and the globe represent the universality of love and are often employed as attributes for Cupid, but the motif of emptying a bag of coins is not. The implication is that Cupid is so intent on spurning riches that he has abandoned his bow and arrows
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