Allegory of Virtue and Vice

Lotto, Lorenzo (ca. 1480-1556)


Item type:
painting
Date of creation:
1505
Height:
56.5 cm  (22 1/4 in.)
Width:
42.2 cm  (16 5/8 in.)
framed: 70.17 × 58.1 × 8.26 cm (27 5/8 × 22 7/8 × 3 1/4 in.)
Technique / Medium:
oil on wood

    Item location

  • National Gallery of Art (Washington, DC)
    [Museum inv. no.: 1939.1.156]

Description

Miniature syrinx, recorder, cornetto, and sheet of music lying on the ground before a genius.

Iconclass

11O
strife between Virtues and Vices, Psychomachy

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Syrinx [4084]
Recorder [4039]
Cornett [3868]

Musical works

illegible music notation
sheet of music lying on ground

RIdIM images


Image URLs

image link 1

RIdIM record id

3957