Charity (Caritas)

Public Domain

Artist / maker

Aegidius Sadeler (engravers (printmakers))

Date

ca. 1624 - 1629

Period

17 century

Collection

Museum of Fine Arts Ghent
The personification of Love (Caritas) breastfeeds a child; two children accompany her.

More about this work

Features
Artist / maker Aegidius Sadeler VIAF RKD Wikidata
Type burin engraving
Category prints (visual works) AAT
Material paper
Dimensions 261 x 205 mm
Location Work currently not on display
Object number 2014-KN
Description
Subjects figures (representations) , allegory (artistic device) AAT
Tags Charity, 'Caritas'; 'Carita' (Ripa) ~ one of the Three Theological Virtues Iconclass, female sex; woman Iconclass, adolescent, young woman, maiden Iconclass, sitting figure - AA - female human figure Iconclass, infant, baby ~ the ages of man Iconclass, nursing, suckling Iconclass, child Iconclass, tot, toddler ~ the ages of man Iconclass, feeding a baby (+ variant) Iconclass, mother (first degree family relationships) Iconclass, mother-love Iconclass, (personifications and symbolic representations of) Love; 'Amore (secondo Seneca)' (Ripa) Iconclass, art (+ copy, copying ~ work of art) Iconclass
Linked open data
Data PURL https://mskgent.be/collection/work/data/2014-KN
IIIF manifest https://imagehub.mskgent.be/iiif/3/11534/manifest.json
LIDO XML https://datahub.vlaamsekunstcollectie.be/oai?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_lido&identifier=oai:datahub.vlaamsekunstcollectie.be:mskgent.be:2014-KN
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