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Catalog Level:
item
Type:
painting
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Terms:
paintings
European
art
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Text:
Allegory of Fortune
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Creation
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Creator Description:
Dosso Dossi (Italian, ca. 1486-1542)
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Identity:
Dossi, Dosso
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painter
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Creation Date:
ca. 1530
Earliest:
1535 Latest:
1535
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Style/Period/Group/ Movement
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Indexing Terms: Renaissance
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Measurements
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Dimensions Description:
178 x 216.5 cm (70 1/2 x 85 1/2 inches)
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Value: 216.5 Unit: cm Type:
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Materials and Techniques
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Description:
oil on canvas
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Material Names:
oil
paint Role: medium
canvas
Role: support
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Subject Matter
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Indexing Terms:
allegory
human
figures
nudes
prosperity
transience
luck
misfortune
cornucopia
bubble
Isabella
d'Este (Italian noblewoman, 1473-1539)
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Descriptive Note
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Text: While the painting's precise
meaning remains a mystery, Dosso's message seems to
be that prosperity in life is transitory and dependent
on luck. The nude woman represents Fortune, or Lady
Luck. She holds a cornucopia, flaunting the bounty
that she could bring, but sits on a bubble because
her favors are often fleeting. The billowing drapery
is a reminder that she is changeable like the wind.
Her single shoe symbolizes her ability to bring not
only fortune but also misfortune. The man on the left
personifies chance. He looks over at Fortune and holds
up a stack of lottery tickets, which he is about to
place inside a golden urn, a timely reference to the
civic lotteries that had just become popular in Italy.
The tickets may also refer to the painting's probable
patron, Isabella d'Este, Marchioness of Mantua. One
of her emblems was a bundle of lots, denoting her
personal experience with fluctuating fortune.
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Citation: J. Paul Getty Museum online
Page: accessed 1 July 2006
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Repository Name/Geographic Location:
J. Paul Getty Museum (Los Angeles, California, United
States)
Repository Numbers:
89.PA.32
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Revised 6 December 2006
