Charity (Caritas)

Public Domain

Artist(s) / maker(s)

Jan Saenredam (engravers (printmakers))
,
Hendrick Goltzius (after)
,
Cornelius Schonaeus (author)
,
Claes Jansz II Visscher (publisher)

Date

1601

Period

17 century
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.

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