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Apr. 18th, 2007 11:56 pmI'm in love with footnotes right now. I hope my art history teacher (or TA if he's the one doing the grading) appreciates the funny.
For example, I'm writing about Lorenzo Lotto's Venus and Cupid painting and in it Cupid is peeing on Venus. This symbolizes fertility and whatnot. It was also supposedly similar to another painting commissioned by Lotto's cousin as a wedding gift. So here are my footnotes (they are not annotated like this but it's easier to read it this way):
-Amusingly, the cousin also commissioned a pendant representing Susannah and the Elders for the bride, most likely as a reminder to “preserve her chastity for her husband.”
-Creepy factor: In Roman mythology (which is pretty much stolen Greek mythology with different names) Cupid is Venus’ son. If they are being “fertile” together, that would be incest. Hence the “creepy factor”.
For example, I'm writing about Lorenzo Lotto's Venus and Cupid painting and in it Cupid is peeing on Venus. This symbolizes fertility and whatnot. It was also supposedly similar to another painting commissioned by Lotto's cousin as a wedding gift. So here are my footnotes (they are not annotated like this but it's easier to read it this way):
-Amusingly, the cousin also commissioned a pendant representing Susannah and the Elders for the bride, most likely as a reminder to “preserve her chastity for her husband.”
-Creepy factor: In Roman mythology (which is pretty much stolen Greek mythology with different names) Cupid is Venus’ son. If they are being “fertile” together, that would be incest. Hence the “creepy factor”.
