Sujet
The Struggle between Fortune and Poverty; Des cas des nobles hommes et femmes, about 1413-1415. Creators: Boucicaut Master, Workshop of the Boucicaut Master.
Légende
The Struggle between Fortune and Poverty; Des cas des nobles hommes et femmes, about 1413-1415. Additional Info: On the left, the personification of Fortune, an elegantly dressed woman with wings, wrestles with the personification of Poverty, a woman raggedly dressed and barefoot. According to the text, Poverty wins this struggle and her victory has a moral message: the renunciation of worldly goods is a virtue that renders fate powerless. Those who voluntarily forsake fame, wealth, and power cannot be affected by a reversal of fortune. After her triumph over Fortune, Poverty orders that Misfortune, shown partly clothed in the background, be bound to a column. Boccaccio himself appears on the right, dressed as a scholar in a red gown with a hood, echoing the text's mention that he had first heard this story from a professor of astronomy when he was a young student in Naples.
Crédit
Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art
Notre référence
HRM24A74_315
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Licence
Droits gérés
Format disponible
86,2Mo (5,7Mo) / 38,1cm x 56,6cm / 4501 x 6690 (300dpi)