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Allegory of Fortune
''Allegory of Fortune'', sometimes also named ''La Fortuna'', is an oil painting on canvas that was created around 1658 or 1659 by the Italian baroque painter, Salvator Rosa, which caused uproar when first exhibited publicly and almost got the painter jailed and excommunicated. Bearing initials, but undated, it measures . Rosa was known for his landscape paintings, but also worked in the sphere of mythology, witchcraft, portraits, and satire. Since 1978 it has been in the J. Paul Getty Museum in Malibu, California.
==Background==
The painting was made at much the same time as Rosa penned ''Babilonia'', a satirical condemnation of the papal court. According to art critic Brian Sewell, the target of the satirical painting could not be misinterpreted. Rosa's friends warned him after viewing it privately, that the painting should not be displayed openly as it was a satirical attack on Pope Alexander VII's patronage. In 1659 the painting was exhibited at the Pantheon, Rome, which almost resulted in Rosa being jailed and excommunicated. Only the intervention of the pope's brother, Don Marco Chigi, saved him from this humiliation.
Eventually Rosa was convinced of the need to offer an explanation of the picture; this he did under the rubric of ''Manifesto'' and, according to art writer James Elmes, "proved that his hogs were not churchmen, his mules pretending pedants, his asses Roman nobles, and his birds and beasts of prey, the reigning despots of Italy."
An earlier painting of Fortune was undertaken by Rosa during the 1640s.
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