Cleveland Museum of Art
Stultitiam patiuntur opes (Wealth permits Stupidity), or, Allegory of Wealth, Lust, and Stupidity
Joos Van WingheLinkedCulture matchlcp-6db230c12bf9
- Date
- 1588
- Medium
- Engraving
- Culture
- Flanders
- Department
- Prints
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 306978
From the Cleveland Museum of Art record
In this pointed visual allegory, a king who personifies wealth counts his money at a table while a jester places a fool’s hat over his head. His female counterpart, distracted by her aged reflection in a mirror, displays her vanity in her luxurious clothing, lap dog, and hangers-on: flattery fans her, and stupidity, with a boar’s head, serves her food and drink. Such allegories were meant to both entertain while cautioning the viewer to question their own relationship to wealth.
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- Dudley P. Allen Fund
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