# An Allegory of Triumph [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [BERTOS, Francesco]() - Date: 1701-1750 - Technique: Bronze, height 90 cm ## Commentary This complex allegorical group shows a rearing unicorn supporting a winged female nude, probably representing Victory, who holds out a crown of laurel above the head of a seated male figure wearing a lion's skin \(possibly Hercules/Valour\) and holding a serpent in his left hand, and a female figure with a cornucopia \(or horn of plenty\) of jewels seated on an altar or plinth. A group is ranged around the altar: a female figure holding a mirror \(probably Prudence\), a male warrior with the head of a Turk or Tartar on a spike, another female holding ears of corn and a cornucopia \(possibly Abundance\) and a putto or child holding a ring, possibly a magnifying glass. This is one of a number of related groups of allegorical subjects, some signed, in the artist's immediately recognisable and idiosyncratic style. Although he also worked in marble, his compositions were more suited to bronze. ## Related artworks - [Allegorical Groups Representing the Four Continents: Africa]() - [Allegorical Groups Representing the Four Continents: America]() - [Allegorical Groups Representing the Four Continents: Asia]() - [Allegorical Groups Representing the Four Continents: Europe]() - [Group of Eleven Figures \(Allegory of Autumn\)]() - [Humility and Faith]() - [Massacre of the Innocents]() - [St Francis Xavier and St Ignatius Loyola]() - [St Francis Xavier \(detail\)]() - [St Ignatius Loyola \(detail\)]() - [Vessel with three putti]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()