Virtues and Vices

MH_0002.jpg

Upper windows on the northern facade of Woods Memorial Hall, 2012

The Lawrenceville School was initially founded by Presbyterian minister Reverend Isaac Van Arsdale Brown in 1810.  Like many schools of the era, the School's early curriculum featured lessons in Christianity in addition to Greek and Roman mythology.  In honor of these teachings,  Christian and mythological symbolism was embedded into the stone carvings that adorn the facade of Woods Memorial Hall.  Doric and Corinthian columns flank windows adjacent to the building's main entrance and rest upon an apron supported by personified Christian virtues (prudence, justice, temperance, courage, faith, hope, and charity) and vices (lust, gluttony, greed, sloth, wrath, envy, and pride).  Only select virtues and vices appear on Woods Memorial Hall.  Can you identify them?  

Virtues and Vices