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. |
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.
Sumptuousness is good, and the human form is good.
Art historians and Veronese experts are unclear about what this work means or almost anything about its production -- thus there does not even seem to be an opportunity for deeper study that would yield any clarity to this work.
allegory, mythology