# Virgin and Child Enthroned with Music-Making Angels and Virtues [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [JACOPO DI CIONE]() - Date: 1351-1400 - Technique: Tempera on panel, gold ground, arched top, 162 x 69 cm ## Commentary The Virgin and Child are here shown together with the three Theological Virtues: Faith with a cross and chalice, Hope, with hands joined in prayer, and Charity, shown with a flaming heart and cornucopia. They are shown together with the four Cardinal Virtues: Prudence, with a sphere and a wand, Justice with the traditional symbols of scales and a sword, Temperance with two vases, and Fortitude, who holds a bow and a column. They are joined by the additional figure of Humility, who holds a lighted candle. Though not accorded a formal position among the Virtues, Humility was usually linked to Temperance in terms of importance to spiritual growth. <p> <table align=left cellpadding=5 border=1 width=320 bgcolor="\#99cccc"> <tr valign=middle><td><img src="/support/gif/listen.gif" border=0 valign=middle> Suggested listening \(streaming mp3, 12 minutes\):<br><a href="\#" onClick="w=window.open \('/music1/14\_cent/gregorian\_chants.html', 'newWin', 'scrollbars=yes,status=no,dependent=yes,screenX=0,screenY=0,width=350,height=350'\);w.opener=this;w.focus\(\);return true"><b>Gregorian chants</b></a> </td></tr></table> ## Related artworks - [Annunciation]() - [Coronation of the Virgin]() - [Female Saints]() - [Madonna and Child]() - [Madonna and Child with Saints]() - [Madonna dell'Umiltà]() - [Mystic Marriage of St Catherine of Alexandria]() - [Noli me tangere \(detail\)]() - [Noli me tangere \(detail\)]() - [Noli me tangere]() - [Polyptych \(detail\)]() - [Polyptych \(detail\)]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()