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  • 4 - Prudence

  • from PART IV - THE ETHOS OF MODERATION
  • Aurelian Craiutu, Indiana University
  • Book:
    Why Not Moderation?
    Published online:
    12 October 2023
    Print publication:
    12 October 2023, pp 175-182

  • Summary

    This letter comments on the affinities between prudence and moderation. It starts from the definition of prudence given by the sixteenth-century Spanish writer Baltasar Gracián in his classic book, The Pocket Oracle and the Art of Prudence (1647), and then examines the different faces of prudence as illustrated by Titian’s famous Allegory of Prudence.

The Art Collector in Early Modern Italy
  • Andrea Odoni and his Venetian Palace
  • Monika Schmitter
  • Published online:
    23 August 2021
    Print publication:
    23 September 2021
  • Lorenzo Lotto's Portrait of Andrea Odoni is one of the most famous paintings of the Italian Renaissance. Son of an immigrant and a member of the non-noble citizen class, Odoni understood how the power of art could make a name for himself and his family in his adopted homeland. Far from emulating Venetian patricians, however, he set himself apart through the works he collected and the way he displayed them. In this book, Monika Schmitter imaginatively reconstructs Odoni's house – essentially a 'portrait' of Odoni through his surroundings and possessions. Schmitter's detailed analysis of Odoni's life and portrait reveals how sixteenth-century individuals drew on contemporary ideas about spirituality, history, and science to forge their own theories about the power of things and the agency of object. She shows how Lotto's painting served as a meta-commentary on the practice of collecting and on the ability of material things to transform the self.