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Allegorical representation of Cosimo III, Grand Duke of Tuscany, as the Temperance, according to Cesare Ripa's <i>Iconologia</i>: «a beautiful woman [in this case obliviously a young man], with long, blond hair, in her right hand she will hold a burning pincer, and in her left a vase of water [here held by a putto on the right], in which she tempers that burning iron, and will be dressed in red velvet, with golden laces»</div>
<bdi><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Luca_Giordano" class="extiw" title="w:en:Luca Giordano"><span title="Italian Baroque painter (1634–1705)">Luca Giordano</span></a>
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1684-1685
<cite class="book" style="font-style:normal">The Yorck Project (2002)      <i> 10.000 Meisterwerke der Malerei</i> (DVD-ROM), distributed by <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:10,000_paintings_from_Directmedia" title="Commons:10,000 paintings from Directmedia">DIRECTMEDIA</a> Publishing GmbH.  <small><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Standard_Book_Number" class="extiw" title="en:International Standard Book Number">ISBN</a>:  <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/3936122202" title="Special:BookSources/3936122202">3936122202</a>. </small></cite>