In Allegory of Painting Bouçher frames art as an expression of the erotic drive to live and create. As painting's personification prepares an outline of Eros-identified by his arrows and flaming torch-the two lock eyes significantly. Beginning with the medieval troubadours and continuing into the Renaissance and Baroque periods, it was imagined that-in the words of N. E. Griffin-"love originates upon the eyes of the lady when encountered by those of her future lover. The love thus generated is conveyed on bright beams of light from her eyes to his, through which it passes to take up its abode in his heart." With Eros's passion thus inflamed, a putto crowns the scene with a laurel wreath representing victory.

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