Follower Of Paolo Veronese (verona, 1528 - Venice, 1588), Allegory Of Wisdom And Strength

Follower of Paolo Veronese (Verona, 1528 - Venice, 1588)

Allegory of wisdom and strength

Oil on canvas, cm 48 x 36,5

Frame, cm 61 x 48

The Allegory of Wisdom and Strength is a painting created in 1565 in Venice by Paolo Veronese and currently kept at the Frick Collection in New York. The Allegory of Wisdom and Strength and the Allegory of Virtue and Vice have passed through the same stories since their realization, passing through numerous owners and collections. Because of this, several scholars have speculated that Veronese painted the canvases in pairs. In 1970, Edgar Munhall was the first to suggest that they were simply completed at the same time, but not a pendant. Studies conducted by experts from the Metropolitan Museum of Art in the years 2000 have confirmed this thesis: scholars have found that the artist used different materials for the support of each painting, He adopted a different composition of the motifs and an equally different methodology in the elaboration of the sky. These discrepancies led scholars to believe that the paintings were conceived individually, as independent works from each other. Moreover, the conclusion was supported by the visual analysis of the two paintings as a whole: it is clearly perceived that they do not complement each other, as would have been if it had been a pair of paintings). Since its creation in Venice in the second half of the 16th century, this work has been owned by Emperor Rudolf II of Habsburg, Queen Christina of Sweden, the Odescalchi family; it was then part of the Orleans Collection of Philip II of Bourbon-SiennaOrléans and later belonged to various British owners and art dealers, until it reached the Frick Collection in New York