Allegory of Prudence
by SANTACROCE, Girolamo, Marble
The allegorical statue of Prudence is from the tomb of Antonio de Gennaro in the church San Pietro Martire in Naples. The tomb was disassembled in 1632-33, when the small chapel of the de Gennaro family in the presbytery was demolished. The sarcophagus with the figure of the deceased was removed to the right transept of the church, and the allegorical statues of Prudence and Justice were separated, and now are kept in the Museo nazionale d’arte medievale e moderna della Basilicata, located inside the Palazzo Lanfranchi in Matera.