Prudence is personified here in clay. She is one of the four Virtues portrayed in art as women. The other three are Justice, Fortitude and Temperance. A snake winds around Prudence's arm while in her right hand, which has broken off, she would have held a mirror. This sculpture was made in the mid-seventeenth century by Artus Quellinus, or one of his assistants. They were responsible for all the sculpture in and on the new town hall in Amsterdam, now the Palace on Dam Square. Before making the final sculpture, they first made a model, or study, in clay - terracotta.
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python_regius) wrote2009-03-27 12:21 am
