"Pilgrimage to Cythera" evinces the typical Rococo style painting through which Watteau illustrates the hedonistic and luxurious modus vivendi that the aristocrat class of the French society led. Cythera is an ancient Greek island, dedicated to the Greek goddess Venus or the Roman Aphrodite. She was the goddess of love, beauty, and fertility. In the painting, there stood a statue of the goddess in the right side, merged with the pastel greenery. Beside her feet there is a bow, like Cupid's, interwoven by flowery bushes. A little Cupid is sitting beside the pair of lovers, with his arrows on the ground, signifying that they are not prerequisite at this particular moment. Rather, he is tugging an edge of the apron of the coy female, as if urging her to love the man beside, as the male lover seems appealing her too. The more we would move leftward, it will be perceived that the position of the pairs is shifting, as if in a dance. They look to be more intimating a...
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