. Antonio Allegri da Correggio, his life, his friends, and his time. nd finally by Louis XIV. TheVice was sold to the French King by Jabach himself in 1671. Vice is seated at the foot of a group of trees, and struggles to free himself from the cords which bind him to the trunks. Three women, their hair entwined with serpents, stand about him. One of them presents him with some vipers, which rear their crests at him from her hand ; the second deafens him with the sound of a pipe, which she blows loudly close by him ; the third binds his feet. Mengs explains the first figure to be Conscience, wh
. Antonio Allegri da Correggio, his life, his friends, and his time. nd finally by Louis XIV. TheVice was sold to the French King by Jabach himself in 1671. Vice is seated at the foot of a group of trees, and struggles to free himself from the cords which bind him to the trunks. Three women, their hair entwined with serpents, stand about him. One of them presents him with some vipers, which rear their crests at him from her hand ; the second deafens him with the sound of a pipe, which she blows loudly close by him ; the third binds his feet. Mengs explains the first figure to be Conscience, who stings him, the third, Habit, who enslaves him, the second, Pleasure, who flatters his senses with melody. It is certain, how-ever, that none of the three produces such keen discomfort in the sufferer as the Pleasure, with her ear-piercing notes ! She is, more probably, the representative of Conscience, tormenting him with her keen and sibilant reproof; the bearer of the vipers may be Passion, and the third figure Habit or Custom, as suggested. Below is seen the. VIRTUE, AN ALLEGORY, BY CORREGGIO. In the Louvre. 324 ANTONIO DA CORREGGIO half-length figure of a lively little satyr, with a bunch of grapes in his hand. Three feminine figures also surround Virtue, a beautiful woman, who is seated, clad in armour, and trampling on a dragon. Glo?y, a winged figure, hovers over her, about to crown her with laurel. On one side of her is seated a woman, who represents earthly and heavenly knowledge ; she points upwards with her left hand, and with her right revolves a compass on a globe. A little genius attends her. A noble and commanding figure on the other side, with a serpent entwined in her hair, and a bit, a sword, and a lions skin, represents the four cardinal virtues, Prudence, Justice, Fortitude, and Temperance. Above, in an aureole of light, three genii wing their flight, singing and playing. In the background is a wall, overgrown with foliage, and beyond it stretches a wide
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