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| Keywords: Laurent de La Hyre - Allegory of Arithmetic - Walters 371917.jpg The importance of the intellect was often celebrated in representations of the Seven Liberal Arts Grammar Rhetoric Logic Geometry Arithmetic Astronomy and Music They could be personified as poised young women in a setting and clothing suggestive of ancient Greece the homeland of Western abstract thought On the book held by Arithmetic is the name of the Greek mathematician Pythagoras while on the worksheet are the primary mathematical functions addition subtraction and multiplication La Hyre produced at least two such series--including the Allegory of Grammar Walters 37 862 --as decoration for the homes of the wealthy He conveys this classical theme with the cool rounded carefully balanced forms of the new idealized style inspired by Raphael and Greco-Roman sculpture 1650 Oil on canvas cm 103 6 112 accession number 37 1917 19242 Don Marcello Massarenti Collection Rome no 820 Henry Walters city Baltimore Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters with the Massarenti Collection 1902 place of origin Paris France Walters Art Museum license 2D Baroque paintings in the Walters Art Museum Laurent de La Hyre Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review Allegories of arithmetic | ||||
