Sculpture
Allegory of Sanguinity
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- Date
- late 17th - early 18th century
- Accession number
- 20.31
- Maker
- Agostino Testa(Opens in new tab) (Italian, 1662–1735)
- Attributeds
- previously attributed to Francesco Marinali(Opens in new tab) (Italian, 1609–1660)
- previously attributed to Unknown, Italian(Opens in new tab) (Italian)
- Dimensions
- 78 × 25 1/2 × 19 in. (198.1 × 64.8 × 48.3 cm.) base: 18 × 27 × 27 in. (45.7 × 68.6 × 68.6 cm.) overall: 96 × 27 × 27 in. (243.8 × 68.6 × 68.6 cm.)
- Medium
- limestone
- Description
- This statue portrays a youth playing a mandolin. It can be interpreted as a personification of the sanguine temperament, one of the four human temperaments known since antiquity.
- Credit
- The Huntington
- Department
- European Art
- Find out more
- View in the Art Museum catalog(Opens in new tab)
