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Allegory of Wisdom and Strength or Wisdom and Strength is a painting by Paolo Veronese, created c. 1565 in Venice.It is now located in the Frick Collection, in New York.It is a large-scale allegorical painting depicting Divine Wisdom personified on the left and Hercules, representing Strength and earthly concerns, on the right.
The Choice Between Virtue and Vice and Wisdom and Strength have traveled together since their creation, through many prestigious owners and collections. Because of this, many scholars assumed that Veronese painted them as a pair. In 1970, Edgar Munhall was the first scholar to suggest that they were simply made at the same time, not as pendants ...
Paolo Caliari (1528 – 19 April 1588), known as Paolo Veronese (/ ˌ v ɛr ə ˈ n eɪ z eɪ,-z i / VERR-ə-NAY-zay, -zee, US also /-eɪ s i /-see; Italian: [ˈpaːolo veroˈneːze,-eːse]), was an Italian Renaissance painter based in Venice, known for extremely large history paintings of religion and mythology, such as The Wedding at Cana (1563) and The Feast in the House of Levi (1573).
Paolo Veronese: 1528–1588 The Choice Between Virtue and Vice [168] c. 1565 oil on canvas Paolo Veronese: 1528–1588 Wisdom and Strength [169] c. 1565 oil on canvas Jean-Antoine Watteau: 1684–1721 The Portal of Valenciennes [170] c. 1710–1711 oil on canvas James McNeill Whistler: 1834–1903
Allegory of Wisdom and Strength is a painting by Paolo Veronese, created c. 1565 in Venice. It is a large-scale allegorical painting depicting Divine Wisdom personified on the left and Hercules, representing Strength and earthly concerns, on the right.
Venus Disarming Cupid is an oil on canvas painting by the Venetian Renaissance master Paolo Veronese, from c. 1550. The painting is set after the Roman poet Ovid's telling of the myth of Venus, Cupid, Adonis, and Mars in Book X of his masterwork, the Metamorphoses. It is one of several works Veronese painted of the subject.
31. "There is no illusion greater than fear." 32. "What is firmly rooted cannot be pulled out." 33. "If I had just a little bit of wisdom I should walk the great path and fear only straying from it."
The scene that the painting depicts is an event that is not described in the Gospels or the Golden Legend, and reflects the widespread beliefs at the time that, firstly, Mary Magdalene and Martha were sisters, living together, and secondly that Mary Magdalene was the woman mentioned elsewhere in the Gospels who had lived a life of sexual sin ...