# Allegory of the Seven Liberal Arts

[View the canonical artwork record](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/vos-marten-de-r0f6dcc1feb9b40/allegory-of-the-seven-liberal-arts-r3e4dd70c7e8dca>)

## Artwork

- Artist: [VOS, Marten de](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/vos-marten-de-r0f6dcc1feb9b40>)
- Date: 1551-1600
- Technique: Oil on oak panel, 147 x 200 cm

## Commentary

The depictions of the Liberal Arts: Grammatica, Dialectica, Rhetorica, Arithmetica, Musica, Geometrica, Astrologia, are undoubtedly influenced by those of De Vos&#39; teacher Frans Floris, painted for Nicolaes Jonghelinck&#39;s house in Antwerp, and popularized by Cornelis Cort&#39;s engravings. The artist combined the liberal arts into one painting thus creating an influential model for subsequent Antwerp painters.

## Related artworks

- [Christ Triumphant over Death and Sin](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/vos-marten-de-r0f6dcc1feb9b40/christ-triumphant-over-death-and-sin-rea45d6490fd1f7>)
- [Nativity](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/vos-marten-de-r0f6dcc1feb9b40/nativity-r3146c29ca13561>)
- [Portrait of Antonius Anselmus, His Wife and Their Children](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/vos-marten-de-r0f6dcc1feb9b40/portrait-of-antonius-anselmus-his-wife-and-their-children-r9386ab66c2a9bf>)
- [Return from the Flight to Egypt](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/vos-marten-de-r0f6dcc1feb9b40/return-from-the-flight-to-egypt-rabbc65d02a781c>)
- [Scene from the Life of the Virgin](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/vos-marten-de-r0f6dcc1feb9b40/scene-from-the-life-of-the-virgin-rfc148ac398e4ff>)
- [St Luke Painting the Virgin Mary](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/vos-marten-de-r0f6dcc1feb9b40/st-luke-painting-the-virgin-mary-rad542b43b89bb1>)
- [St Paul Bitten by a Viper on the Island of Malta](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/vos-marten-de-r0f6dcc1feb9b40/st-paul-bitten-by-a-viper-on-the-island-of-malta-r94b7021c26e24c>)
- [The Emperor&#39;s Toll](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/vos-marten-de-r0f6dcc1feb9b40/the-emperors-toll-rbc239dcb853bc6>)
- [The Family of St Anne \(detail\)](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/vos-marten-de-r0f6dcc1feb9b40/the-family-of-st-anne-detail-r94f71dc4536cd9>)
- [The Family of St Anne](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/vos-marten-de-r0f6dcc1feb9b40/the-family-of-st-anne-r662d7ba4bd18ac>)
- [The Marriage at Cana](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/vos-marten-de-r0f6dcc1feb9b40/the-marriage-at-cana-r2603d5cddfddac>)
- [The Rape of Europa](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/vos-marten-de-r0f6dcc1feb9b40/the-rape-of-europa-r797315f087a1b7>)

## Attribution

[Web Gallery of Art](<https://beta.wga.hu/pages/about>)