Temperance (Temperantia) from The Virtues, Philips Galle, –60

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Temperance (Temperantia) from The Virtues, ca9–60, Engraving; first state of two, Sheet: 9 5/8 x 12 5/16 in. ( x cm), Prints, Philips Galle (Netherlandish, Haarlem 1537–1612 Antwerp), After Pieter Bruegel the Elder (Netherlandish, Breda (?) ca. 1525–1569 Brussels), Bruegel’s design for Temperance depicts a maelstrom of human activity collapsed into an impossible space. Figures crowd the print in clusters of activity that bleed into one another, from choir singers accompanied by a small orchestra to actors performing for a rapt audience to cosmographers futilely attempting to measure a smoke-billowing, swiftly rotating earth

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Size: 5207px × 3882px
Photo credit: © Artokoloro / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

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