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- Title
Fortune Regum: A 17th-century allegorical landscape at Queen's University.
- Authors
Kilpatrick, R.S.
- Abstract
In 1987, Drs. Isabel and Alfred Bader of Milwaukee presented Queen's University at Kingston with a picture now catalogued, "Anonymous Dutch Landscape with Allegorical Figures (c.1630, oil on panel 60 x 81.4 cm)." Its two central figures are a white-haired, bearded nude male with wings, and a seated traveller, to whom the former holds out a crown with his right hand, a sceptre in his left. The proposed identification of this winged figure with Zeus-Fortuna is suggested by two Odes of Horace. 3.29 offers a Stoic parallel to the choice the traveller must make between vita activa (power and peril) and vita contemplativa (peace in the countryside). 1.34 offers a Stoic syncresis of Diespiter and Fortuna, whose wings signify the fleeting and variable nature of the deity's gifts. Some sixteenth- and seventeenth-century emblems and book illustrations also help to support this interpretation.
- Subjects
ALLEGORY (Art); 17TH century Dutch art; LANDSCAPE painting; ODES (Book : Horace); GREEK mythology in art; QUEEN'S University (Kingston, Ont.)
- Publication
International Journal of the Classical Tradition, 1996, Vol 3, Issue 1, p65
- ISSN
1073-0508
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/BF02676904