busca: classicizing lunettes of twelve antique heroes with the four cardinal virtues

Douglas P. Lackey1
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Department of Philosophy, Baruch College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York, New York, NY 10010, USA
Received: 25 January 2005 Accepted: 16 February 2005
Abstract In the Arena Chapel in Padua, Giotto painted seven allegorical representations of virtues and seven allegorical representations of vices. This article probes the sources for the list of virtues and the list of vices. The ensemble of virtues can be located in St. Thomas Aquinas; the ensemble of the vices, however, is original. The result is a new account of vices that displaces the odler account of the “seven deadly sins.”
Key words allegories of the vices - allegories of the virtues - Arena Chapel - Giotto - seven deadly sins

Oceano e Netuno no átrio do palácio

"Atrium
In the central rosette of the ceiling of the atrium is the name of Perin del Vaga and the date, 1530, together with the name of Annibale Angelini, who restored the frescoes in 1845. In the lunettes, now not very legible, are portrayed the stories of the seven kings of Rome; in the pendentives are depicted ancient divinities, and on the underside of the arches the heads of winds. In the four panels of the ceiling, interposed with grotesques, are painted the three moments of the Triumph of Lucius Aemilus Paulus, the general of ancient Rome, who chased the Gauls out of Liguria (again an allusion to the recent chasing out of the French from Genoa, in which the Doria had taken part), and the Triumph of the God Bacchus in India, an allegory of the pacification of the city".