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Laurent de La Hyre: Allegory of Arithmetic  wikidata:Q18749033 reasonator:Q18749033
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Laurent de La Hyre  (1606–1656)  wikidata:Q59894
 
Alternative names
Laurent de La Hire
Description French painter, printmaker, engraver, visual artist and designer
Date of birth/death 27 February 1606 Edit this at Wikidata 28 December 1656 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Paris Edit this at Wikidata Paris Edit this at Wikidata
Work period 1620 Edit this at Wikidata–1657 Edit this at Wikidata
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Paris, Fontainebleau
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artist QS:P170,Q59894
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Allegory of Arithmetic
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Genre allegory Edit this at Wikidata
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English: 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.
Date 1650
date QS:P571,+1650-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium oil on canvas
medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q12321255,P518,Q861259
Dimensions 103.6 × 112 cm (40.7 × 44 in)
institution QS:P195,Q210081
Accession number
37.1917
Place of creation Paris, France
Object history
Credit line Acquired by Henry Walters with the Massarenti Collection, 1902
References Walters Art Museum artwork ID: 19242 Edit this at Wikidata
Source Walters Art Museum: Home page  Info about artwork
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