Allegory of Vice (Correggio)

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Allegory of Vices
Correggio
Yearbetween 1525 and 1531
MediumTempera on canvas
Dimensions149 cm × 88 cm (59 in × 35 in)
LocationLouvre, Paris

The Allegory of Vice is an oil on canvas painting by

Correggio dating to around 1531 and measuring 149 cm (59 in) by 88 cm (35 in).[1]

Provenance

This picture and the Allegory of Virtue were painted as a pair for the studiolo of Isabella d'Este, with Vice probably the second of the two to be completed. This hypothesis is since only one (possibly non-autograph) sketch survives for Vice, unlike Virtue, for which several preparatory studies survive, along with a near-complete under-drawing – this suggests Correggio had become more proficient after the difficult gestation of Virtue.[2]

Influenced by the

Gonzaga collection inventory of 1542. This misunderstanding may have contributed to an Apollo and Marsyas (actually by the studio or circle of Bronzino) being historically misattributed to Correggio.[3] The putto in the foreground is influenced by Raphael's putti in the Sistine Chapel
.

In 1542, after Isabella's death, they were both recorded as hanging on either side of the entrance door "in the Corte Vecchia near the grotto", with Vice on the left and Virtue on the right. After the contents of her studiolo were dispersed, it remained in

Charles I of Great Britain. After his execution it was purchased by cardinal Mazarin in 1661 and later by the banker Everhard Jabach,[4] who later sold it to Louis XIV in Paris, reuniting it with Virtue. They both now hang in the Louvre.[5]

References

  1. ISBN 9788836609772
  2. ^ (in Italian) Mauro Lucco (ed), Mantegna a Mantova 1460-1506, exhibition catalogue, Skira Milano, 2006
  3. ^ srl, Netribe. "Giulio Sanuto, Apollo e Marsia, 1562 - Correggio ART HOME". www.correggioarthome.it. Archived from the original on 2016-03-05. Retrieved 2017-09-05.
  4. ^ "Site officiel du musée du Louvre". cartelfr.louvre.fr. Retrieved 2017-09-05.
  5. ^ srl, Netribe. "Giulio Sanuto, Apollo e Marsia, 1562 - Correggio ART HOME". www.correggioarthome.it. Archived from the original on 2016-03-05. Retrieved 2017-09-05.
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