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Faith, Hope and Charity

Maker

(Artists)
1596-1669

Title

Faith, Hope and Charity

Date of Production

c. 1640

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

Height: 155 cm (canvas)
Width: 127.9 cm (canvas)

Accession Number

P.1966.GP.316

Mode of Acquisition

Gambier Parry, bequest, 1966

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

On display

Keywords







Label Text

These three women personify Christian virtues. The figure in red, surrounded by children, represents Charity while the one wearing blue is Faith. The woman on the far right holds an anchor, a traditional symbol of Hope.

Pietro Berrettini - better known as ‘Cortona’, his hometown in central Italy - was the leading painter in 17th-century Rome. He created magnificent decorations for its many churches and palaces. For the two women on the left in this work, he repeated figures from an earlier large decorative scene of an Old Testament subject. He then simply added the third figure to change their meaning and turn them all into allegorical virtues.

Provenance

Gambier-Parry Bequest 1966

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