id:			106374
accession number:	1924.432.30
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1924.432.30
updated:		2023-03-04 09:29:28.281000

Theology (from the Tarocchi, series C:  Liberal Arts, #30), before 1467. Master of the E-Series Tarocchi (Italian, 15th century). Engraving; The Cleveland Museum of Art, Dudley P. Allen Fund 1924.432.30

title:				Theology (from the Tarocchi, series C:  Liberal Arts, #30)
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series:				
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creation date:			before 1467
creation date earliest:		1457
creation date latest:		1467
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creditline:			Dudley P. Allen Fund
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culture:	Italy, Ferrara, 15th century
technique:	engraving
department:	Prints
collection:	PR - Engraving
type:		Print
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catalogue raisonne: Hind E.I. 30

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CREATORS

* Master of the E-Series Tarocchi (Italian, 15th century)  - artist

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	inscription:	Lettered below the image of Theologia (Theology): ·C· / ·THEOLOGIA·XXX· / ·30
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Prints and Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art Collection
	opening date:   1965-05-06T04:00:00
	<i>Prints and Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art Collection</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (May 6-September 9, 1965).

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digital description:
This engraving is part of the group “C” named <em>Liberal Arts</em>. Conceptually, the liberal arts descended from classical antiquity, and were divided into the <em>Trivium </em>(Grammar, Rhetoric, and Dialectic or Logic) and the <em>Quadrivium </em>(Music, Geometry, Arithmetic, and Astronomy). In the Tarocchi set the total number was risen to ten, with the addition of the three disciplines (Poetry, Philosophy, and Theology). The liberal arts denoted knowledge or skills considered necessary to participate in a free society. By the late Middle Ages, they began to be represented in the visual arts as womanlike allegories. <br><br>Here, <em>Theologia </em>(Theology) is personified as a half-length pregnant female figure in profile. A bearded visage of an old man is placed on the back of the graceful woman’s head. These two profiles embody the ability to observe the heavens and to look at the earth, respectively. Theology is set on her attribute—a starry sphere—which epitomizes the study of celestial things.

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