Prudence
Also titled Voorzichtigheid
Artus Quellinus (I) (Antwerp, 1609–1668)
1650 - 1651
- Medium
- terracotta (clay material)
- Classification
- sculpture
- Dimensions
- height 91 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- On loan from the City of Amsterdam
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its museum says too little about what it shows to place it for younger viewers. How works are placed
About this work
Both façades of the Town Hall are surmounted by three bronze statues. On the front elevation, Peace is flanked by the virtues Prudence and Justice, of which these terracotta figures are the scale models. On the rear elevation, Atlas shoulders the celestial globe, with Temperance and Vigilance at his side. The message expressed here is that universal peace, on earth and in heaven, depends on these four virtues.
