A small cherub or cupid figure, especially in Renaissance art; a representation of love as a small, often winged boy.
From Italian 'amoretto,' the diminutive of 'amore' meaning 'love.' This is the singular form of 'amoretti,' borrowed from Italian Renaissance art vocabulary.
Renaissance artists loved painting pudgy winged babies (amoretti) on everything—it's why we think of Cupid as looking like a chubby toddler instead of the serious god of love the Romans imagined!
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