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GE_23.04: Quatre vertus
(GE_Geneve_AmericanEmmanuel_23.04)

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Title

Quatre vertus

Type of Object
Artist / Producer
Holiday, Henry · Attribué à Holiday
Dating
1895
Dimensions
250 x 60 cm

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
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