"Inspite of his contemporary reputation, no works survive that are signed or documented as his. Several of the forty or so paintings now given to him were formerley attributed to Caravaggio. One example being (The Concert in the Uffizi) Florence Italy."(2)

The piece I was able to view is "Cupid Chastised" the medium is oil on canvas 1605. The size of this piece is 175.3 X 130.6 cm. He paints during the Boroque period, and captures the exact

Manfredi bring us up close to the action, and by using mannerism to set the mood of this eternal conflict between love and war. He brings us in the room where Mars is raising the whip to a blind-folded cupid. The area around is dark, but we see a few doves representing peace flying away in the upper right corner of the picture. The scale of mars is larger than everyone else, and the proportion appears normal. The perspective is at eye level, with the vanishing point between the arm of Venus and the leg of Mars. We see this painting in one point perspective, and the directional force flows from Cupid to Mars then to Venus. Iconography appears in the form of Cupid, we know it's Cupid due to the fact of the blindfold, arrows and the wings (not just the title). While the content here expresses his anger of embarassment, Venus shows compassion and possibly confusion; with her left hand trying to stop Mars from striki

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