The female personification of Temperance (Temperantia) is depicted with the bit of a horse's toad in her mouth, a clock on her head and glasses in her hand. She is surrounded by a variety of scenes illustrating this virtue. Top left, a theatre play and people making music can be seen. Bottom left, people are counting money. On the bottom right, we see pupils and their teacher. In the middle back, an astronomer is at work with a measuring instrument. Below the scene is a two-line caption in Latin.
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Philips Galle
RKD
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Pieter I Bruegel
RKD
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Hieronymus Cock
RKD
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| Title | Temperance (Temperantia), from the series The Seven Virtues |
| Date | ca. 1560 - 1562 |
| Period | 16th century |
| Location | Antwerp TGN |
| Medium and support | burin engraving AAT |
| Signatures, inscriptions, and markings | printed inscription in the depiction, bottom centre: TEMPERANTIA |
| printed inscription bottom right, outside the depiction: BRVEGEL | |
| printed inscription outside the depiction, below: VIDENDVM, VT NEC VOLVPTATI DEDITI PRODIGI ET LVXVRIOSI / APPAREAMVS, NEC AVARA TENACITATI SORDIDI AVT OBsCVRI EXISTAMVS | |
| inscription on the reverse: Petrus america | |
| inscription on the reverse: Double | |
| Collection | print room |
| Object type | burin engraving AAT |
| Inventory number | 2014-PI |
| Acquisition credit |
onbekend 2014 |
| Current whereabouts | Work currently not on display |
| Permalink | https://mskgent.be/collection/work/data/2014-PI |
| IIIF Manifest | https://imagehub.mskgent.be/iiif/3/11756/manifest.json |
| Art & Architecture Thesaurus |
300055865
symbolism (artistic concept)
AAT
300055866 allegory (artistic device) AAT 300189808 figures (representations) AAT 300124520 interior views AAT |
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| Keywords Iconclass |
11M42
Temperance, 'Temperantia'; 'Temperanza' (Ripa) ~ one of the Four Cardinal Virtues
Iconclass
23U24 clock Iconclass 24A sun as celestial body Iconclass 24B moon as celestial body Iconclass 31A231 standing figure Iconclass 31A235 sitting figure Iconclass 31A311 eyeglasses, spectacles Iconclass 31A71 male sex; man Iconclass 31A72 female sex; woman Iconclass 31AA231 standing figure - AA - female human figure Iconclass 41A343 ladder Iconclass 45C16(CANNON) firearms: cannon Iconclass 46B31 money Iconclass 46B311 coin Iconclass 46B314 cheque, draft, bill of exchange Iconclass 46B321 book-keeping, accountant Iconclass 46C13141 horse Iconclass 46C131612 bit Iconclass 48(+431) art (+ copy, copying ~ work of art) Iconclass 48A712 the audience ~ art performance Iconclass 48C7211 musician training pupils, music-lesson Iconclass 48C7334 organ Iconclass 49B24 teacher and pupil Iconclass 49D521 measuring-instruments Iconclass 49D53 counting, calculating Iconclass 49E1 astronomy (and cosmography) Iconclass 49N reading Iconclass |
| School / Style | Renaissance AAT |
| Bruegel de Oude (Fonds Richard de Moor). - [s.l.] : [s.n.], [s.a.] |
| Dutch and Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts ca. 1450-1700 : Vol. III. Boekhorst - Brueghel / Friedrich Wilhelm H. Hollstein. - Amsterdam : Menno Hertzberger, 1949- ; Amsterdam : Van Gendt & Co., 1978 (279) |
| Dutch and Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts ca. 1450-1700 : Vol. IV. Brun - Coques / Friedrich Wilhelm H. Hollstein. - Amsterdam : Menno Hertzberger, 1949- ; Amsterdam : Van Gendt & Co., 1978 (187) |
| Dutch and Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts ca. 1450-1700 : Vol. V. Cornelisz. - Dou / Friedrich Wilhelm H. Hollstein. - Amsterdam : Menno Hertzberger, 1949- ; Amsterdam : Van Gendt & Co., 1978 |
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