About this artwork
This delicate work, designed and engraved by an unknown artist, is from a series of 50 prints erroneously thought to be Tarocchi, a deck of tarot cards. The allegorical figures illustrate the breadth of human knowledge and ability: liberal arts and sciences, cardinal and spiritual virtues, and cosmic powers. Here, the personification of strength wears lion armor and holds a broken column—an allusion to the biblical figure Samson, whose final powerful act was toppling a building, killing his captors and himself.
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Status
- Currently Off View
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Department
- Prints and Drawings
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Artist
- Master of the E-Series Tarocchi
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Title
- Fortitude, plate 36 from Genii and Virtues
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Place
- Italy (Artist's nationality)
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Date
- 1460–1470
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Medium
- Engraving in black on cream laid paper
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Dimensions
- Plate: 18 × 10 cm (7 1/8 × 3 15/16 in.); Sheet: 18.6 × 10.5 cm (7 3/8 × 4 3/16 in.)
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Credit Line
- Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Potter Palmer, Jr.
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Reference Number
- 1924.39.24
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IIIF Manifest
- https://api.artic.edu/api/v1/artworks/11471/manifest.json
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