1540
Pacientia (Patience)
Sebald BehamGerman, 1500 - 1550
In addition to classical and religious subjects, Beham also devised complex moralizing allegories on themes such as patience and the impossible. Embracing the lamb, her traditional attribute, Pacientia (Patience) (at left) triumphs over a wart-covered demon. Beham shows his pride in this particular invention by signing his full name in Latin above his monogram on the tablet at lower left and identifying himself as a Nuremberg townsman (Noricus).
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