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Description: | Several figures making up an allegory of Virtue. The central female figure representing Virtue sits in a carved throne, wearing scale armour and holding a staff in her right hand and a metal, plumed helmet in her left. A female figure in red to the right of the composition sits at the feet of Virtue and holds a set of compasses. Another female figure in green drapery sits in profile at Virtue's other side and holds the hilt of a sword or dagger in her right hand. An angel crowns Virtue with laurels. Another angel to the left of the picture plays a lyre. The central angel holds a staff or arrow with another angel to the right holding the other end. | Subjects: | allegory (virtue); religion | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Correggio (Italian painter, ca. 1489-1534) Æ Attributed to after | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8554... | Go to resource |
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