EditorialFour Allegories of Virtue, Villa Aldini, Montmorency, France, Felice Giani, Italian, 17581823, Pen and brown ink, brush and greyish-brown wash, black chalk on grey textured paper, Four octagonal drawings. Top, left: Justice shown standing on one side o...
EditorialDesign for an Ovoidal Painting: Prudence, Giacomo Zampa, Italian, 1731 - 1808, Black chalk, pen and ink, brush and sepia wash, brush and white oxidized gouache on brown paper, A seated woman contemplates a skull she holds in upon her right knee. The le...
EditorialMirror frame, painted with four allegorical female figures, Mirror frame of faience, painted in blue with four allegorical female figures, Prudence, 'Prudentia', 'Prudenza' (Ripa), one of the Four Cardinal Virtues, Justice, 'Justitia', 'Giustitia divin...
EditorialWisdom Wisdom, Sketch of a female figure with the head turned to the right, standing on the right leg and with the left bent. With her left hand she holds the tail of the snake, which coils around her arm. Of the wavy hair, part of which is held togeth...
EditorialAllegorical cartouche with Prudentia, Minerva and eroten (in box with 43 drawings), (story of) Minerva (Pallas, Athena), Prudence, 'Prudentia', 'Prudenza' (Ripa), one of the Four Cardinal Virtues, Louis Fabritius Dubourg, 1747, paper, ink, pencil, brus...
EditorialFire plate with allegory on the Peace of Munster, Fire plate made of cast iron, with a semicircular top. Central is the personification of Peace with a palm branch in her hand, draped above her canvases and the inscription PAX. Peace is on weapons and ...
EditorialCoffin, painted with heraldic figures and with female figures sitting on the front between Corinthian columns: Fortitudo, Justitia, Temperantia and Prudentia, Coffin of painted poplar wood. The chest rests on the sides, which are painted with heraldic ...
EditorialBun box, Hexagonal bun box of silver. Engraved representations on the sides: Love, Faithfulness, Caution, Flowering, Music and Fertility, Prudence, 'Prudentia', 'Prudenza' (Ripa), one of the Four Cardinal Virtues, anonymous, Friesland, 1600 - 1650, sil...
EditorialView of Utrecht and allegory with Minerva and virtues, A view of the city of Utrecht with the silhouette of the Dom church in an architectural setting with the goddess Minerva and three personifications of virtues: Temperance, Justice and Caution. The ...