The lecture on earthly passion and heavenly love in Italian art transforms the paintings of old masters into living stories. Guests will analyze the symbols of fidelity and betrayal, learn how artists encoded feelings on canvases, and how the image of Cupid changed over time-from a gloomy deity to a gentle putto, close to the modern viewer. The theme of love in Italian art is rarely straightforward. Behind soft gestures, light on skin, and perfect faces often lie dramatic stories, where joy and pain walk side by side. In the lecture, viewers will be invited to look at familiar masterpieces not as beautiful pictures, but as statements about passion, fidelity, temptation, and the choice between the earthly and the heavenly. This is a conversation about how a feeling familiar to everyone transformed into the language of painting from the Middle Ages to the Baroque. Special attention will be given to symbols.