Ignorance Collection

La Commune arretee par l Ignorance et le Reaction, 1871. Satirical cartoon depicting an allegorical figure representing the Paris Commune arrested by Ignorance and Reaction. From a private collection

I sette vizi capitale (The seven main sins). Creator: Fabbi, Fabio (1861-1946)
I sette vizi capitale (The seven main sins). Found in the Collection of the Museo Ottocento Bologna.

St Catherine Imploring Pope Gregory XI to Return from Avignon to Rome, early-mid 18th century. Creator: Marco Benefial
St Catherine Imploring Pope Gregory XI to Return from Avignon to Rome, early-mid 18th century. Catherine is persuading the Pope to return to Rome to end the Avignon Papacy

Vajrayogini as Naro Dakini, 18th century. Creator: Unknown
Vajrayogini as Naro Dakini, 18th century. The goddess and Buddha Vajrayogini lunges powerfully as she tramples two figures that symbolize the three mental poisons: delusion, hatred, and desire

Project for a Cartouche: An Allegory of Minerva, Fame, History and Faith Overcomin... c1727. Creator: Francois Boucher
Project for a Cartouche: An Allegory of Minerva, Fame, History and Faith Overcoming Ignorance and Time, c1727

Shiva as the Lord of Dance, 10th century. Creator: Unknown
Shiva as the Lord of Dance, 10th century

Tiens, ce n'est rien que des peintures!... 1855. Creator: Honore Daumier
Tiens, ce n'est rien que des peintures!... 1855. Pun on the French word toile which can mean canvas or cloth. - Tiens, ce n'est rien que des peintures

Shiva as the Lord of Dance, between c.950 and c.1000. Creator: Unknown
Shiva as the Lord of Dance, between c.950 and c.1000

Devant le tableau de Monsieur Gustave Moreau, 19th century. Creator: Honore Daumier
Devant le tableau de Monsieur Gustave Moreau, 19th century. Exhibition. First visitor: A cat with a low-cut neckline and a woman's head, that's called a Sphinx then

Le peintre qui a eu un tableau refusé... 19th century. Creator: Honore Daumier
Le peintre qui a eu un tableau refuse... 19th century. Exhibition of 1859. Painter who has had a picture rejected: Monsieur, don't you think this is a terrible picture

On dit qu'on commence déja a la voir... 19th century. Creator: Honore Daumier
On dit qu'on commence deja a la voir... 19th century. The comet of 1857: women discussing the appearance of the comet. One asks where it can be seen. Near Cherbourg is the reply

Wisdom Conquering Ignorance, c.1597. Creator: Aegidius Sadeler II
Wisdom Conquering Ignorance, c.1597

Esquisse pour le salon des Arts à l'Hôtel de Ville de Paris : La glorification de l'Art, c.1888
Esquisse pour le salon des Arts a l'Hotel de Ville de Paris : La glorification de l'Art, c.1888

Ignorance and Mercury, n.d. Creator: School of Andrea Mantegna
Ignorance and Mercury, n.d

Sculpture, 1913. Creator: John Runer
Sculpture, 1913. Reclining nude with his hands at the sides of his head

Socrates, (c470-399 BC), 1830. Creator: Unknown
Socrates, (c470-399 BC), 1830. Socrates (c470-399 BC) Athenian moral philosopher influential in Western ethical traditions of thought

Do not shout you idiot, 1799. Artist: Francisco Goya
Do not shout you idiot, 1799. Published in Los caprichos. Los Caprichos were published in 1799 at a time of social repression and economic crisis in Spain

Allegory on Science. Minerva and Cronus protect Science against Envy and Ignorance, 1615-1619. Creator: Jacob Jordaens
Allegory on Science. Minerva and Cronus protect Science against Envy and Ignorance, 1615-1619

Tantric Temple Banner of a Dancing Goddess Flanked by Dakinis, 17th century

Design for Ceiling Fresco: Apollo and the Muses with Minerva Destroying Ignorance, n. d
Design for Ceiling Fresco: Apollo and the Muses with Minerva Destroying Ignorance, n.d

Ignorance and Mercury (an allegory of Virtue and Vice), Mercury kneeling at right... ca
Ignorance and Mercury (an allegory of Virtue and Vice), Mercury kneeling at right holding a staff and taking the hand of a man who emerges from a pile of naked bodies

Bon Voyage (Buen Viage), from The Caprices (Los Caprichos), plate 64, 1799

Plate 64 from Los Caprichos : Bon voyage (Buen Viage. ), 1799. Creator: Francisco Goya
Plate 64 from Los Caprichos : Bon voyage (Buen Viage.), 1799

Plate 43 from Los Caprichos : The sleep of reason produces monsters (El sueno de la razon produce monstruos), 1799, published 1908-12

Plate 50 from Los Caprichos : The Chinchillas (Los Chinchillas. ), 1799
Plate 50 from Los Caprichos : The Chinchillas (Los Chinchillas.), 1799

Virtue as a young woman in the centre of four figures representing love, error, ignorance and opinion, 1585

James I appointing Charles as King of Scotland at center, Minerva spearing Ignorance at right, and Hercules beating Envy at left, 1720

The Cage of Fools (La gabbia de matti), 1557-63. Creator: Sebastiano di Re
The Cage of Fools (La gabbia de matti), 1557-63

The Calumny of Apelles, 1602. Creator: Cornelis Cort
The Calumny of Apelles, 1602

Ignorance Defeated, 1540-45. Creator: Antonio Fantuzzi
Ignorance Defeated, 1540-45

A Theatrical Chymist, May 1786. May 1786. Creator: Thomas Rowlandson
A Theatrical Chymist, May 1786

Brother Philippes Geese, ca. 1736. Creator: Nicolas Lancret
Brother Philippes Geese, ca. 1736

The Demolition of Cheapside Cross, (1643), 1897. Creator: Unknown
The Demolition of Cheapside Cross, (1643), 1897. The Cheapside Cross in the City of London was one of the Eleanor crosses, a series of twelve stone monuments topped with tall crosses

Cover of the humorous magazine La Ignorancia, which appeared in Palma between 1879 - 1883, No. 1, 2nd season, Majorca, January 1892

The murder d cherub, or the cockneys distress at the bloody-deed, 1804. Artist
The murder d cherub, or the cockneys distress at the bloody-deed, 1804. Two men, who have been shooting, look in horror at a dead owl, believing it to be a cherub

Slaves Celebrating Liberation, c1860s. A racist depiction of slaves at the mansion of Robert W Barnwell, Confederate leader. The music on the piano is upside-down, ridiculling their illiteracy

Pretty teacher!, 1799. Artist: Francisco Goya
Pretty teacher!, 1799. Plate 68 of Los caprichos. Los Caprichos were published in 1799 at a time of social repression and economic crisis in Spain

Wait till you ve been anointed, 1799. Artist: Francisco Goya
Wait till you ve been anointed, 1799. Plate 67 of Los caprichos. Los Caprichos were published in 1799 at a time of social repression and economic crisis in Spain

Look how solemn they are!, 1799. Artist: Francisco Goya
Look how solemn they are!, 1799. Plate 63 of Los caprichos. Los Caprichos were published in 1799 at a time of social repression and economic crisis in Spain

Bon Voyage, 1799. Artist: Francisco Goya
Bon Voyage, 1799. Plate 64 of Los caprichos. Los Caprichos were published in 1799 at a time of social repression and economic crisis in Spain

It is time, 1799. Artist: Francisco Goya
It is time, 1799. Plate 80 of Los caprichos. Los Caprichos were published in 1799 at a time of social repression and economic crisis in Spain

They are hot, 1799. Artist: Francisco Goya
They are hot, 1799. Plate 13 of Los caprichos. Los Caprichos were published in 1799 at a time of social repression and economic crisis in Spain

What a golden beak!, 1799. Artist: Francisco Goya
What a golden beak!, 1799. Plate 53 of Los caprichos. Los Caprichos were published in 1799 at a time of social repression and economic crisis in Spain

The Senator, 19th century

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