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The Art of Worldly Wisdom (Spanish: Oráculo Manual y Arte de Prudencia) is a book written in 1647 by Baltasar Gracián y Morales, better known as Baltasar Gracian. [1] It is a collection of 300 maxims , each with a commentary, on various topics giving advice and guidance on how to live fully, advance socially, and be a better person, that ...
The Allegory of Prudence (c. 1550–1565) is an oil-on-canvas painting attributed to the Italian artist Titian and his assistants. The painting portrays three human heads, each facing in a different direction, above three animal heads (from left to right, a wolf, a lion and a dog).
Recitados en la Florida Academia de los Floridos (ib. 1685). Retrato de la Prudencia, y simulacro del Valor, al Augusto Monarca Guilielmo Tercero, Rey de la Gran Bretaña (ib. 1690), printed by Joan Bus, using the rare ascendonica italic. [28] Vega, José La (1692). Ideas possibles de que se compone un curioso ramillete de fragrantes flores ...
His book of aphorisms, The Pocket Oracle and Art of Prudence ("Oráculo Manual y Arte de Prudencia") deals with the cultural ideal of desengaño, which is commonly translated as disenchantment or disillusionment. However, Gracian is said to have asserted that the journey of life is one where a person loses the misconceptions of the world, but ...
Prudence in Woman (Spanish: La prudencia en la mujer) is a play written by the Spanish playwright Tirso de Molina. It was written around 1621 and 1623, and was published in the third part of Tirso’s works (Madrid, 1634). [1]
The crowned Prudencia, carrying scales, allegorically rides a wagon to Heaven. Concordia puts the finishing touches on the wagon. Upon entry Prudencia rides alone, on one horse, towards the Empyrean of the Christian God. On the lower left corner, Prudencia, with a book, addresses eight young women seated upon the ground.
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