Temperance (Temperantia) from The Virtues, ca9–60, Engraving; first state of two, Sheet: 9 5/8 x 12 5/16 in. (24.4 x 31.2 cm), Prints, Philips Galle (Netherlandish, Haarlem 1537–1612 Antwerp), After Pieter Bruegel the Elder (Netherlandish, Breda (?) ca. 1525–1569 Brussels), Bruegel’s design for Temperance depicts a maelstrom of human activity collapsed into an impossible space. Figures crowd the print in clusters of activity that bleed into one another, from choir singers accompanied by a small orchestra to actors performing for a rapt audience to cosmographers futilely attempting to measure a smoke-billowing, swiftly rotating earth
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Temperance, Temperantia, Virtues, ca9–60, Engraving, first state, two, Sheet, 9 5/8 x 12 5/16, 24.4 31.2 cm, Prints, Philips Galle, Netherlandish, Haarlem, 1537–1612, Antwerp, After Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Breda, ca., 1525–1569, Brussels, Bruegel, design, Temperance depicts, maelstrom, human activity, collapsed, impossible space, Figures crowd, print, clusters, activity, bleed, another, choir singers, accompanied, small orchestra, actors performing, rapt audience, cosmographers futilely, attempting, measure, smoke-billowing, swiftly rotating, earth
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