Faith, Hope and Charity
Maker
(Artists)
1596-1669
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)
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.
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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