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Description: | Similar to the other three allegories in the group, this image of Architecture is enacted by four putti who appear to be building a classical folly. One lays bricks, another takes a plumb line to a pillar, while two in the centre measure architectural plans. Although formerly attributed to Angelica Kauffman, the paintings lack the subtle sensitivity of her whimsical scenes. Nonetheless, the works would have been responding to the same decadent eighteenth-century tastes. The works are more similar to the overtly frivolous cupids of Jacob de Wit who allegorised a variety of themes in this way. | Subjects: | allegory (architecture); figure | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Wit, Jacob de (Dutch painter, 1695-1754) Æ Attributed to circle of Previously attributed to Kauffmann, Angelica (Swiss painter and printmaker, 1741-1807) | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8839... | Go to resource |
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