23-03-2020, 10:45 PM
(This post was last modified: 23-03-2020, 10:54 PM by -JKP-.
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The four cardinal virtues. This one is interesting because there are men rather than the more common use of four women. I don't know if the one on the right is holding a chain or a rosary, but it could be interpreted as a chain (since it sometimes was a chain):
Source: Digital Walters W.171
What I've always found interesting about this imagery in the VMS is that the inner portion looks like a fountain and there is a sun in the middle. Fountains often had sundials in the middle. The plumes that spread to the outside edge could possibly be the spray from a fountain. Water imagery is consistent with the traditional depictions of virtues.
Source: Digital Walters W.171
What I've always found interesting about this imagery in the VMS is that the inner portion looks like a fountain and there is a sun in the middle. Fountains often had sundials in the middle. The plumes that spread to the outside edge could possibly be the spray from a fountain. Water imagery is consistent with the traditional depictions of virtues.