Charity

Peter Flötner

ca. 1540 · Bronze · European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

This plaquette comes from a series of the Seven Virtues. Charity holds a child while another reaches up to offer an apple. The woman is partially covered by her luminous drapery, which falls in curvilinear folds. Occasionally, this type of plaquette was duplicated in gold and in brass; they were often used to decorate vessels and furnishings.

Artist

Peter Flötner

Date

ca. 1540

Medium

Bronze

Culture

German, Nuremberg

Department

European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

Credit line

Gift of Ogden Mills, 1926