The female personification of Love, one of the three divine virtues, suckles a child and embraces two children standing next to her. Above her head, putti fly with a laurel wreath and flowers.
| Artist |
Jan Saenredam
RKD
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Hendrick Goltzius
RKD
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Cornelius Schonaeus
Wikidata
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Claes Jansz II Visscher
RKD
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| Title | Charity (Caritas) |
| Date | 1601 |
| Period | 17th century |
| Location | Amsterdam TGN |
| Medium and support | burin engraving AAT |
| Collection | print room |
| Object type | burin engraving AAT |
| Inventory number | 2014-MZ-3 |
| Acquisition credit |
unknown
2014 |
| Current whereabouts | Work currently not on display |
| Permalink | https://mskgent.be/collection/work/data/2014-MZ-3 |
| IIIF Manifest | https://imagehub.mskgent.be/iiif/3/11682/manifest.json |
| Art & Architecture Thesaurus |
300055874
religious symbolism
AAT
300189808 figures (representations) AAT |
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| Keywords Iconclass |
11M33
Charity, 'Caritas'; 'Carita' (Ripa) ~ one of the Three Theological Virtues
Iconclass
25G41 flowers Iconclass 25G4111 garland, wreath Iconclass 31A2223 breasts Iconclass 31A22232 breasts giving milk Iconclass 31A72 female sex; woman Iconclass 31AA the (nude) human figure; 'Corpo humano' (Ripa) - AA - female human figure Iconclass 31AA235 sitting figure - AA - female human figure Iconclass 31D111 infant, baby ~ the ages of man Iconclass 31D112 child Iconclass 31D1121 tot, toddler ~ the ages of man Iconclass 31D13 adolescent, young woman, maiden Iconclass 42A31 nursing, suckling Iconclass 42B12 mother-love Iconclass 42G2112 mother (first degree family relationships) Iconclass 48(+431) art (+ copy, copying ~ work of art) Iconclass 56F2 (personifications and symbolic representations of) Love; 'Amore (secondo Seneca)' (Ripa) Iconclass 92D1916 cupids: 'amores', 'amoretti', 'putti' Iconclass |
| School / Style | Renaissance AAT |
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