The concept of opposing forces of good and evil expressed in a
broad range of moral qualities--virtues and vices--is one of the
most dominant themes in the history of Christian art. The complex
interrelationship of these moral traits received considerable study
in the medieval period, resulting in a vast and elaborate system of
imagery that has been largely neglected by modern scholarship. Rich
resources for the study of this important subject are made
available by this volume, which publishes the complete holdings of
the more than 230 personifications of Virtues and Vices in the
Index of Christian Art's text files. Ranging from Abstinence to
Wisdom and from Ambition to Wrath, and covering depictions of the
Tree of Virtues, the Tree of Vices, and the Conflict of Virtues and
Vices, this is the largest and most comprehensive collection of
such personifications in existence. The catalogue documents the
occurrence of these Virtues and Vices in well over 1,000 works of
art produced between the fifth and the fifteenth centuries. The
entries include objects in twelve different media and give detailed
information on their current location, date, and subject.
This extract from the Index of Christian Art's files, the first
to be published, is accompanied by six essays devoted to the theme
of virtue and vice. They investigate topics such as the didactic
function of the bestiaries and the "Physiologus," female
personifications in the "Psychomachia of Prudentius," the Virtues
in the Floreffe Bible frontispiece, and good and evil in the
architectural sculpture of German sacramentary houses. The
contributors are Ron Baxter, Anne-Marie Bouche, Jesse M. Gellrich,
S. Georgia Nugent, Colum Hourihane, and Achim Timmerman."
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