PINTURICCHIO
(b. ca. 1454, Perugia, d. 1513, Siena)

The Arithmetic

1492-94
Fresco
Palazzi Pontifici, Vatican

The allegorical depiction of arithmetic, one of the liberal arts, is in the Sala delle Arti Liberali (Room of Liberal Arts) in the Borgia apartments. The room from which this view is taken was decorated on a theme of the seven liberal arts.




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