Temperance
- Object belonging
- One's own
- Category
- Bronze sculpture
- City
- Rome
- Location
- Museo Nazionale del Palazzo di Venezia
- Specific location
- Room 16
- Inventory
- PV 09320
- Material and technique
- Bronze, clear black lacquer
- Author
- Venetian School
- Dating
- 1550-1575
- Dimensions
- 23 x 11.5 x 9 cm.
- Origin
- Barsanti Collection (1934); formerly Bardini Collection, Florence (1902)
- Image copyright
- SSPSAE e per il Polo Museale della città di Roma
Short description
This female figure stands on a small circular base, wearing a long, close-fitting, ankle-length dress, which opens to leave her left leg uncovered. She wears a diadem in her hair, decorated with a spiral shape, and carries a vase in her left hand. In her right arm and hand, which were fused separately and are now missing, she would have held a carafe, as part of this allegory of Temperance.
Pietro Cannata
Bibliography
L. Pollak, Raccolta Alfredo Barsanti (Trecento-Settecento), catalogue of the collection, Bergamo 1922, no. 93, p. 132; A. Santangelo, Museo di Palazzo Venezia. Catalogo delle sculture, Rome 1954, p. 55.
