LA FORTUNA Painting

FORTUNE Yu the idea that fate is capricious, usually presented in Western art in the guise of the Roman goddess of Fortune, originally a deity of abundance, and later incorporated the features of impermanence. Common attributes: boat, rudder, sail and a globe. On the contrary, lady Luck, which was popular in the Spanish iconography, depicted spinning wheel, on which someone ascends, while the other throws to the ground. Symbolic embodiment of happiness. Originally the goddess of women and of oracles, and later its function was identified with the functions of the Greek goddess Tikhe and ultimately came down to the designation of changeable human happiness, good luck. Most often it was provided with the vane-rudder and cornucopia in her hand, standing on a ball or wheel (wheel of fortune), with a sail or wings, driven hither and changeable wind of luck. Fortuna [good Luck] has two aspects: (1) the ancient goddess of impermanence, revived in the Renaissance; it gives to his chosen ones at random; and (2) medieval Lady Luck rotating your wheel. 1. The goddess appears naked, and is usually winged. Sometimes appears blindfolded, "is blind, and even completely eyeless, she always showered with gifts by their bad and unworthy" (Apuleius "the Golden ass" 7:2). Attributes: ball (Ball is also the attribute of opportunity, which can be defined as the action of Fortune), power (traditional), on which it stands or sits, - Originally pointed out the inconsistency, but for the people of the Renaissance it meant rather a world, over which it stretched. (To Horace ("Odes", 1:35) fortune was "water lady", which is afraid of the mariners. Thus it can be the WHEEL of a billowing SAIL, an allusion to the inconstancy of the wind and sit astride the SINK or on a DOLPHIN or holding a model SHIP. less common attributes: The cornucopia (in common with many other characters), dice; bridle (in common with Nemesis) 2. In ancient times with the fortune associated WHEEL. Boethius (CA. 480-CA. 542) in the "Consolation of Philosophy" describes the wheel of Fortune, which raises the fallen and humiliates the arrogant ones. Figure, full of hope, climbs onto one side of the wheel, the other figures, seated on the top of the wheel, wearing a crown, while on the other side of the wheel (the descending figure in rags is heading down, and perhaps the fourth is lying on the ground. Each may be accompanied by the inscription: "Regnabo", "Regno", "Regnavi" and "Sum sine regno" [lat. — "I will reign", "I have reigned", "I reigned", "I am without a Kingdom"]. It can be carved in stone on the rim around the window-sockets, which are available in the French Romanesque churches; it can be found in the manuscripts, Renaissance engravings and the tapestries. The emblems Fortuna, one foot standing on a globe in the middle of the sea. A symbol of the impermanence and unreliability of this goddess. "By all accounts, a personification of impermanence is a woman standing on this, so volatile base, like a balloon, and exposed to every passing wave, every breeze, obviousely her robe. So in her good graces and smiles or anger and hostility are so momentary. And since we don't know when there will be a change in her mood, it should not be particularly proud of its favor and too much to grieve about her problems". [EMSI 52-1] Christianity The idea of the elusive goddess was part converted in the idea of the inscrutable will of the Lord, God's Providence and Dispensation, and a part of her opposed to the undoubted virtue (constancy) and was evaluated negatively. In the latter case, with fortune on her balloon, contrasted the Virtue that rests on a rectangle or a cube — the symbol of stability. East Asia Happiness represented the seven Gods of Happiness and is itself the Buddha-the fat man (khotey). Illustration Fortuna: the Goddess of happiness on the catch ball. V. Cartari, 1647. CMA lat. Fortuna In Roman mythology, the goddess of happiness, chance and luck. Classic time F. was identified with the Greek Tikhe. Originally the goddess of the harvest (this is evidenced by the origin of its name is from the verb ferre, "to carry"), motherhood, women. As the goddess of the fruits of F. esteemed gardeners, her feast (June 11) coincided with the day of the goddess of fertility and childbirth Mater Matute. F. with the epithet "virgin" devoted their clothes to the bride. F. — Protectress of women, whose cult was introduced by the matron in gratitude for the fact that, at their request, Coriolanus spared Rome, patronized the women, former married only once (Serv. Verg. Aen. IV 19). Subsequently, perhaps under the influence of the cult predestinado F. Primigenia ("original") F. became the goddess of fortune, happy occasion. The introduction of the cult contacted F. king Serviam Tullius, who became F. because of the love of the son of a slave, a king and had raised her a few sanctuaries (Ovid. Fast. VI 569). F. revered as F.-"destiny today", "this place", "private Affairs", "public Affairs", "good fortune," "evil destiny", "men of destiny", "merciful", etc. From the inscriptions of the Imperial time are aware of the existence of altars F., the patron erected a separate legions, corporations, craft boards, names, faces, where she appeared together with the Penates. She was portrayed on the coins of nearly all Roman emperors. Her cult cults were close Felitsitas — the personification of happiness, Bonus Eventus good outcome, Bona Mens — the spirit of resistance. Approached F. also with ISIS and Nemesis. Depicted with a cornucopia, sometimes a ball or a wheel (the symbol of the changeability of happiness) or with a blindfold.

Painting:Paint on Canvas

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Size:23.6 W x 23.6 H x 1.4 D in

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