LOT 0010 Lodewijk Toeput, Pozzoserrato (1550-1604), atributed to
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The goddess Fortuna stands on a ball and hands out her gifts, the one fame (trumpet), rule (crown, scepter) and power and honor (crosier, laurel wreath), gold, and money and offspring (one child). Clergy and secular dignitaries, citizens, and craftsmen try to get hold of the lucky gifts. Those people she turns away from are threatened with misery and imprisonment, as can be seen from the figures on the left. In the background on the left, a battle is taking place with a battery of cannons and on the right, you can see a port on the Mediterranean Sea with a galley and a gondola, so it is certainly meant Venice. Warfare and shipping were under the sign of Fortuna, who distributed luck and misfortune as if by chance. The ball on which Fortuna stands or balances symbolizes the changeability of happiness: today Fortuna makes a person king, tomorrow she will plunge him from the throne into misery. Oil on canvas 161.5 x 144 cm
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