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The Triumph of Wisdom
From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
About this work
Wisdom stands in the guise of Minerva with one foot on Ignorance, a man with donkey ears. A putto honors her with a laurel wreath. She has tied the man's hands with a rope. Around them stand seven personifications as a variant of the seven liberal arts; including astronomy, music, geometry, painting, sculpture, and rhetoric. Below the scene, a four-line Latin caption emphasizing that the ignorant are unable to honor the arts.
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own descriptionCredit lineTriomf van de wijsheid. 1597 - 1629. Aegidius Sadeler (II). Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.
