THE PROGRAM OF VIRTUES IN UBEDA'S SAN ISIDORO CHURCH

This study undertakes an iconographic study of the program of virtues that appears in the nave of the transept of the church of San Isidoro de Obeda; designed by Alonso Barba in the last third of the 16th century and executed by Sebastian de Solis around 1593. For a proper analysis of the object of this research, I have gathered various literary sources that have allowed me to identify them; they include the ethical-political thought of Antiquity, from Plato to Aristotle, to Seneca or Plutarch; the texts of western Christianity such as the Epistles of Saint Paul; the humanism of Juan Luis Vives and of Erasmus of Rotterdam. Likewise, in this article I indicate the iconographic origin of each of the virtues, some of which arose in Carolingian times, and later received the figurative contributions of French and Italian art.