Iconography

GODS AND MYTHS

Minerva / Allegories / Good goverment
Saturn / Single figure / Head not veiled, with wings, without scythe or sickle

HISTORY

Modern / France / 16th century / Accession of Henri IV (1589)

SECULAR ICONOGRAPHY

Allegories and personifications A-Z / Chance (Occasio)

Further details

detail; Wittkower regards this image as sketch for the cycle of the life of Henri IV and interprets it as Occasio led by Minerva before Henri IV who can then grasp her; Held regards it as a stand-alone allegory and gives no political interpretation; similar sketch in the Arenberg Collection

Artist or creator

Rubens, Peter Paul (1577-1640)

Date

1628 (circa)

Location

Vienna, Liechtenstein Museum

Associated persons

Ian Jones (Photographer (digital))

Notes on photograph

Bibliographic Citation

Rudolf Wittkower, Chance, Time and Virtue, Journal of the Warburg Institute 1 (1938), pp. 313-321; Julius S. Held, The Oil Sketches of Peter Paul Rubens, Princeton 1982, p. 350, no. 259, pl. 261

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Acknowledgements

Record created with the generous support of the Dean’s Development Fund, School of Advanced Study’

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