Unchanged by any teller — how the centuries since have seen Metis.
The gallery
Allegory of Prudence
Girolamo Macchietti, c. 1565–1570
Macchietti’s Florentine allegory personifies Prudence — the Latin afterlife of Greek mētis, counsel and cunning. Catalogued with the Oceanid Metis on Commons, the panel stands in for a figure almost never painted in her own right: Zeus’s first wife survives in art chiefly as the virtue that bears her name.