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Allegory of Intellect, Memory, and Will


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Allegory on the faculties of the soul represented in accordance with Cesare Ripa's Iconologia. Intellect is personified by a young man crowned by a flame and about to write on a blank slate, Will as a winged woman wearing a crown, with two winged putti (one angelic, the other evil) whispering in her ears, and Memory as a two-faced woman. Engraving made after a painting by Vouet, commissioned by Marcello Sacchetti.

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Ingenuity: Ingenium, Ingenuity: Engin, Ingenuity: Esprit, Ingenuity: Génie, Faculties, Soul, Flame, Angels, Ruins

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National Galleries Scotland

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