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| Anonymous Netherlandish Artist Personification of Justice ca. 1600-1625 ivory Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| Melchiorre Cafà Personification of Justice ca. 1660-70 terracotta Hermitage, Saint Petersburg |
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| Rombout Verhulst Personification of Prudence ca. 1670-90 sandstone Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| Giovanni Baratta Personification of Prudence ca. 1703-1708 marble Los Angeles County Museum of Art |
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| Giovanni Baratta Personification of Wealth ca. 1703-1708 marble Los Angeles County Museum of Art |
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| Pietro Bracci Personification of Strength ca. 1741 terracotta Hermitage, Saint Petersburg |
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| Giovanni Caccini Personification of Temperance 1583-84 marble Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Roman Empire Personification of Health 2nd century AD marble Los Angeles County Museum of Art |
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| Balthasar Ferdinand Moli Faith, Hope, Charity ca. 1739-40 walnut and ivory Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
from Christian Virtues
Oh, dear!
The Christian virtues will disappear!
Nowhere on land or sea
Will be room for charity!
Nowhere, in field or city,
A person to help or pity!
Better for them, no doubt,
Not to need helping out
Of their old miry ditch.
But, alas for us, the rich!
For we shall lose, you see,
Our boasted charity! –
Lose all the pride and joy
Of giving the poor employ,
And money, and food, and love
(And making stock thereof!)
Our Christian virtues are gone,
With nothing to practise on!
– Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1893)
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| Jacopo Lavaggi Personification of Hope ca. 1686 terracotta Hermitage, Saint Petersburg |
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| Giuseppe Mazzuoli Personification of Charity ca. 1715 bronze Harvard Art Museums |
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| Daniel Chester French Personification of Truth 1900 plaster Art Institute of Chicago |
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| John Michael Rysbrack Personification of Victory 1760 terracotta Victoria & Albert Museum, London |
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| Antonin Mercié Personification of Glory ca. 1873 bronze Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Agostino Zoppo Personification of Wisdom ca. 1550 bronze Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |