Truth is uncovered by time, but is buried by discord.
Winged Saturn, why are you carrying a naked maiden off through the air? Why is that crowd of women burying her in a grave of heaped-up earth?- It is shining truth, the daughter of time, whom a threefold plague is burying in a cavernous tomb: Discord, Envy, Slander.
Hadrianus Junius Emblemata LIII 1565
Hadrianus Junius Emblemata LIII 1565
Annibale Carracci: Allegory of Time and Truth, 1584-85, London, Hampton Court Royal
François Le Moine: Time reveals Truth, 1737. London, Wallace Collection
Rubens: Triumph of Truth, and below full composition, 1622-25. Louvre.
The image celebrates the reconcilement of Maria de’ Medici and her son Louis XIII.
Tiepolo: Time reveals Truth, c. 1745. Vicenza, Museo Civico
Poussin: Triumph of Truth, c. 1641. The painting was commissioned by Richelieu. Its model
was the ceiling painting by Domenichino of c. 1615 in the Palazzo Costaguti of Rome
Bron: http://riowang.blogspot.com/2010/09/veritas-filia-dei-3-time-and-truth.html
Geen opmerkingen:
Een reactie posten