Sculpture

Allegory of Sanguinity

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Type: Sculpture(Opens in new tab)
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 Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens
Department: European Art
Find out more: View in the Art Museum catalog(Opens in new tab)

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