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    GE_23.04: Quatre vertus
    (GE_Geneve_AmericanEmmanuel_23.04)

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    Title

    Quatre vertus

    Type of Object
    Stained glass
    Artist / Producer
    Holiday, Henry · Attribué à Holiday
    Dating
    1895
    Dimensions
    250 x 60 cm
    Location
    American Emmanuel Episcopal Church, Genève
    Place
    Nef, n IV
    Inventory
    Geneva (Canton)

    Iconography

    Description

    En haut à gauche, une femme porte un lys et symbolise la pureté. En haut à droite, une autre écarte les nuages noirs de ses mains et symbolise l’espérance. En bas à gauche, une autre tient une croix et un livre et symbolise la foi. La dernière, en bas à droite, porte un enfant et un rameau d’olivier et symbolise l’amour.

    Iconclass Code
    56D1 · Hope; 'Speranza', 'Speranza delle fatiche' (Ripa)
    56F2 · (personifications and symbolic representations of) Love; 'Amore (secondo Seneca)' (Ripa)
    57A614 · Faithfulness, 'Bona Fide'
    57A63 · Incorruption, Purity; 'Purità' (Ripa)
    Iconclass Keywords
    Amore (secondo Seneca) · Bona Fide · faith · Hope · incorruption · Love · Purità · purity · Ripa · Speranza · Speranza delle fatiche · Spes
    Inscription

    PURITY / HOPE / FAITH / LOVE (sous chaque vertu) / IN Loving memory of ELIZABETH ALVINA HYDE born 1814 died 1886 (bandeau en bas)

    Signature

    Aucune

    Technique / State

    Technique

    Vitrail au plomb, grisaille

    History

    Dating
    1895
    Original Donor

    Melville Hyde, Clarence (donateur)

    Bibliography and Sources

    Literature

    Gérald Carpenter, The American Church in Geneva : a century of service, 1873-1973, Centennial Committe of Emmanuel Church, Geneva, 1973, p. 17-50

    Armand Brulhart et Erica Deuber-Pauli, “Pâquis, Sécheron”, in Ville et canton de Genève, coll. “Arts et monuments”, SHAS, Berne, (1ère éd. 1985) 1993, p. 198

    Nicole Quellet-Soguel (dir.), Clement Heaton : 1861-1940, Londres Neuchâtel New York, Attinger, Hauterive, 1996, pp. 46-47

    Magalie Kocher, Typologie des vitraux des églises anglicanes de l’arc lémanique, mémoire de licence polycopié, Université de Lausanne, faculté des lettres, Lausanne, 2001, pp. 34-39

    Magalie Kocher, Inventaire des vitraux des églises anglicanes de l’arc lémanique, mémoire de licence polycopié, Université de Lausanne, faculté des lettres, Lausanne, 2001, pp. 1-14

    Image Information

    Name of Image
    GE_Geneve_AmericanEmmanuel_23.04
    Credits
    © APAS (Association pour la Promotion de l'Art Sacré), Genève – photographe : Cyrille Girardet, Veyrier
    Date
    2006

    Inventory

    Reference Number
    GE_23.04
    Author and Date of Entry
    Valérie Sauterel 2008
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