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Charity, Abraham Bloemaert, c. 1590
Abraham Bloemaert, portraitAbraham BloemaertDutch, 1566–1651

Charity

c. 1590 · Painting

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The Cleveland Museum of Art

Cleveland, United States

Room213 Dutch Painting

On public display.

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About the painting

Abraham Bloemaert drew on traditional depictions of the Virgin and Child for this allegorical image of Charity: a woman surrounded by children, one an infant for whom she has bared her breast. Bloemaert was one of the leading proponents of the Mannerist style in the Northern Netherlands. Characteristics of that style include exaggerated figural proportions, contorted poses, heightened colors, densely packed compositions, and a deliberate eroticism—invoked here to emphasize the magnetic quality of Charity’s serene beauty.

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Particulars

Accession number
1994.10

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PaintingsOilDutch paintingRenaissance16th centuryNetherlands, late 16th Century

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