The State Hermitage Museum founded in 1764 by the Russian Empress Catherine the Great in the heart of historic St. Petersburg occupies an ensemble of magnificent buildings on the bank of the River Neva. The grandest of all is the Winter Palace - the former residence of the Russian tsars - designed by Francesco Bartolomeo Rastrelli. Within the walls of this artistic enclave reside the Hermitage collections, about three million works that trace the development of world art and culture from the Stone Age to today. The pranks of capricious and playful Cupid, the son of Venus, the goddess of love, can bring both suffering and delight to mortals and gods of Olympus alike. No one can escape his arrows, and artists down through the ages have been unable to resist the temptation to depict scenes of coquetry, tormenting longing and desperate passion. In the Hermitage collection love stories caused by the antics of this naughty fair-haired boy are depicted in a whole range of works of...

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