Justice
2007-7-19 4:34:40 Post:Sam | Categories:doupine | Comment:0 | Quote:0 | Browse:
With her large, gleaming sword and the celestial orb, over which, like any justice, she must reign forever.
This is good painting, a little two-dimensional and a bit dull, with some Gothic influence visible in the sharp quality of the robes. As it happened, one of the Mercanzia seven was a person called Rudelai; every time Pollaiuolo delivered a Virtue, his face became longer and longer, as he considered them ugly. He took it upon himself to order the seventh and last Virtue from an artist in whom he trusted called Sandro Botticelli, whom nobody had heard of. The six other Virtues had to be seen first to better understand how first the seven Judges, and then all of Florence, were so excited about this painting.