Allegory of Knowledge of Things

1725-1769 118 5/16 in. (300.5 cm) Citation Source image

This is one of four large limestone figures that were originally installed as part of a set of 15 in the Palazzo Pisani in Venice, where they were placed in niches above the stairs leading to the library. As they were seen only from the front, their backs were left in a rough...

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Raoul Heilbronner, Paris; Glaenzer and Co., New York; Henry Walters, Baltimore, after 1900, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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