# Pallas Expelling the Vices from the Garden of Virtue [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [MANTEGNA, Andrea]() - Date: 1451-1500 - Technique: Tempera on canvas, 160 x 192 cm ## Commentary This painting was commissioned by Isabella d'Este for her studiolo in the Palazzo Ducale, Mantua where she kept her collection of small luxury objects. Isabella's court advisor, the poet Paride da Ceresara, devised a program of classical allegories for the room, one of which was awarded to Mantegna. The painting is crammed with anecdotal detail and communicate allegorically rather than historically. The theological virtues \(Faith, Hope, and Charity\) appear in the cloud in the upper right corner of the painting. ## Related artworks - [Adoration of the Magi]() - [Agony in the Garden \(detail\)]() - [Agony in the Garden \(detail\)]() - [Agony in the Garden]() - [Agony in the Garden]() - [Assumption of the Virgin \(detail\)]() - [Assumption of the Virgin]() - [Assumption of the Virgin]() - [Bacchanalia with a Wine Vat]() - [Baptism of Christ]() - [Baptism of Christ]() - [Battle of the Sea Gods]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()