Themed images for Putto.

Francesco Boschi’s Adoration of the Angels, painted in the mid-seventeenth century for the Florentine church of Santi Michele e Gaetano, transforms personal grief and civic faith into a radiant vision of redemption. At its center, an oval image of the Virgin and Child is set like a relic within a cloud of angels—infant-like figures who hover in tender adoration. These cherubs, with their soft forms and open gestures, evoke not mere celestial attendants but the transfigured souls of children, the innocenti of Florence’s collective memory.