does Temperance always have wings?

[northsea]

Is Temperance always depicted with wings? I'm just wondering because the other two cardinal virtues, Justice and Fortitude, usually don't have them.

 

[jmd]

Neither the Cary Sheet depiction nor the Visconti-Sforza version of Temperance depicts wings.

 

[mythos]

Thanks jmd ... I know that it wasn't my question, but it is one that I was about to look into.

I do have a question regarding temperance ... does anyone know of a deck in which four jugs are poured to form a cross? I ask because this is in my mind for my own version.

mythos

 

[venicebard]

Is Temperance always depicted with wings? I'm just wondering because the other two cardinal virtues, Justice and Fortitude, usually don't have them.

Neither the Cary Sheet depiction nor the Visconti-Sforza version of Temperance depicts wings.

And even in the Marseilles they’re only strapped-on (by some mother, no doubt, acting in a morality play for children). You can see where the fabric hides the strap as it crosses her shoulder-blades. I noticed this because it falls at the back of the shoulders in the tree-calendar version of the (closed or circular) zodiac in man, by its number that is (being L-luis-rowan-14, the month following that of Yule).

 

[jmd]

No deck comes to mind in which are depicted four jugs forming a Cross, mythos - but perhaps the question also asked in either Talking Tarot or Tarot Decks may yield replies this section may not.

The holding of the jug or jugs reminds me, in any case, of depictions of Miriam the Jewess (alchemist) of late-antiquity fame.

As to whether the wings are 'tied' to the back of the angelic figure as though a human being involved in ritual play, I personally doubt it: the image on the Noblet, for example, seems to clearly depict a winged figure, not a human to which is attached wings - the two are a little different.

In any case, to depict virtues as winged is not that unusual.

 

[venicebard]

The holding of the jug or jugs reminds me, in any case, of depictions of Miriam the Jewess (alchemist) of late-antiquity fame.

I would be very interested in seeing examples: I find this character fascinating.

As to whether the wings are 'tied' to the back of the angelic figure as though a human being involved in ritual play, I personally doubt it: the image on the Noblet, for example, seems to clearly depict a winged figure, not a human to which is attached wings - the two are a little different.

Then how do you explain the cloth gathered across her breastbone? An ascot? (Noblet is a crude example to build a case on, surely.)