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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
the frame narrative, the "Decameron" provides a unity in philosophical outlook. Throughout runs the common medieval theme of Lady Fortune, and how quickly one can rise and fall through the external influences of the "Wheel of Fortune". Boccaccio had been educated in the tradition of Dante's "Divine Comedy", which used various levels of allegory to show the connections between the literal events of the story and the Christian message. However, the "Decameron" uses Dante's model not to educate the reader but to satirize