On the iconography of Temperance

Authors

  • Miguel Ángel León Coloma Departamento de Historia del Arte. Universidad de Granada

Keywords:

Symbology, lconography, Moral allegory, Cardinal virtues, Temperance, Greek ethics, Roman ethics, Moral literature, Theology, lconographic sources, Artistic influence

Abstract

This paper analyses a series of visual and literary images of the allegory of Temperance from the Low Middle Ages and the Renaissance in Spain. Different iconographic versions of the allegory are discussed, and are
placed within the ethical and polítical context of Antiquity, from Aristotle to Cícero and Seneca, on the one hand, and on the other within that of the moralizing tradition of Christian theology from Ambrosius of Milan
and Prudence to St. Thomas Aquinas and Vives.

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Published

1998-11-01

How to Cite

León Coloma, M. Ángel. (1998). On the iconography of Temperance. Cuadernos De Arte De La Universidad De Granada, 29, 213–228. Retrieved from https://revistaseug.ugr.es/index.php/caug/article/view/10398

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Section

Estudios