"Allegory of Prudence" by Luca Giordano

In the Allegory of Prudence (C. 1565-1570) is an oil painting of Italian master Titian. It is located in the National Gallery in London. The painting depicts three chapters in different directions, hanging over a period of three animals of the same, with the image (left), a wolf, lion and dog. Three people chapters represent an allegory of "Three Centuries of Rights" (youth, maturity, old age), as well as in the famous enigm of the Sphynx, and, as later described by Aristotle.

For people who are thought to be portraits of Titian, his son Orazio, and a young cousin Marco Vecellio, who, like Orazio, lived and worked with Titian. Titian also painted a self portrait at the end of 1567, of which the comparison is made. Others have also occurred in other paintings by Titian that period.

This is the only picture of Titian contain motto: EX PRAETERITO / PRAESENS PRUDENTER AGIT / NE FUTURA ACTION? DETURPET ( "on [experience] the past, this act cautiously so as not to spoil his future activities").

The picture is linked Erwin Panofsky, in the famous exhibition, with the success of Titian in 1569 to transfer its senseria, valuable broker patent, granted to him in the Signoria, his son. Titian, therefore, the past, present Orazio, and grandson Marco, in the absence of this future.

Culture

Allegory is an expression through the symbolic figures, action, or symbolic representation. Usually used in word allegory should not be expressed in language, but may be considered in the eye, for example, realistic painting, sculpture or other form of mimetic or representative art.

In the etymological meaning of the word is broader than the joint use of the word. Although it is similar to other rhetorical comparisons, an allegory is a more stable and better in his more than a metaphor, and appeals to the imagination, although the analogy appeals to reason and logic. In the fable or parable is a short allegory with one definite moral.

Because the meaning of the stories are almost always applicable to larger issues, allegories may be read in many stories, sometimes distorting their author's meaning clear. For example, many people believe that "The Lord of the Rings" is an allegory on the world wars, in spite of JRR Tolkien's strong statement in the introduction to the second edition of "It is neither allegorical nor topical .... I truly love allegory in all its ...