Francesco de MuraItalien, 1696Charity
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Wo ist „Charity“ heute? Art Institute of Chicago, Saal 215, Chicago. Ja, derzeit ausgestellt. Geprüft 29. September 2026.
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This painting presents an allegory of the virtue of charity through images of maternal love and sacrifice: a mother nurtures several young children and a pelican feeds her young by drawing blood from her own breast. This work was one of a set of allegories of five virtues intended as decorations set above doors in a palace belonging to the king of Savoy, a region in northwest Italy. Francesco de Mura spent most of his career in Naples but also worked for the king of Savoy in the 1740s, producing paintings in a style that combined grand, calm figures with active drapery. Although it is now rectangular, the canvas shows signs of an earlier curved shape appropriate to a Rococo room decoration.
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- 1971.429
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