Wisdom and Strength |
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| Name of Work | Wisdom and Strength | ||||||||
| Production Date | 1580c | ||||||||
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| Media Types | oil on canvas | ||||||||
| General Notes | Part of a series of works that were designed as a group. The title asserts themes but there is no way one could extract those titled themes (wisdom especially) from the depicted subjects or their rendering. | ||||||||
Description
A sumptuously clad full-figured woman, with one exposed breast is leaning against a column and looking upward, while immediately to her right is a powerfully built man leaning off to the side and looking down. Beneath them is a small child (I think an angel given the apparent wings), sitting next to some crown and jewels, and looking upward. There is a landscape and sky in a sliver of the painting off to the side.
Theme
Emotional Sum or Sense-of-life
Sumptuousness is good, and the human form is good.
Context Information
Tags
allegory, mythology
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