# Allegory of the Arts

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## Artwork

- Artist: [ROTTENHAMMER, Hans I](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/rottenhammer-hans-i-r259e0e8ebad221>)
- Date: 1551-1600
- Technique: Oil on copper, 28 x 21 cm

## Commentary

Copper was a popular painting support in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, and it was used for this Allegory. Pictura is inspired by her beautiful model \(Venus\), as Architecture devises a centrally planned château-fort; Poetry writes and Music strums the lute. Faintly in the manner of Veronese, this cheerily erotic tableau is typical of international Mannerism.

## Related artworks

- [Adoration of the Shepherds](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/rottenhammer-hans-i-r259e0e8ebad221/adoration-of-the-shepherds-ra745d6f82e6221>)
- [Adoration of the Shepherds](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/rottenhammer-hans-i-r259e0e8ebad221/adoration-of-the-shepherds-reef10c3ef52468>)
- [Feast of the Gods \(detail\)](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/rottenhammer-hans-i-r259e0e8ebad221/feast-of-the-gods-detail-r824d951ecef080>)
- [Feast of the Gods](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/rottenhammer-hans-i-r259e0e8ebad221/feast-of-the-gods-r5e14eee58ddf24>)
- [Feast of the Gods](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/rottenhammer-hans-i-r259e0e8ebad221/feast-of-the-gods-r6bec1fb174c143>)
- [The Judgment of Paris \(detail\)](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/rottenhammer-hans-i-r259e0e8ebad221/the-judgment-of-paris-detail-ra9d18bb45b06c1>)
- [The Judgment of Paris](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/rottenhammer-hans-i-r259e0e8ebad221/the-judgment-of-paris-r08721b1d2a81b0>)
- [Venus and Adonis](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/rottenhammer-hans-i-r259e0e8ebad221/venus-and-adonis-r510f4e8f424a4c>)

## Attribution

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