An Allegory of Love Artist: Paolo Schiavo (Italian, 1397–1478)

ca. 1440

European Art

On view, 2nd floor, European Art

Long, horizontal panels such as this were painted to decorate the fronts of furniture chests, called cassoni. In early fifteenth-century Florence, cassoni were commonly commissioned in pairs on the occasion of patrician marriages as part of the bride's trousseau. Their painted subjects were often drawn from classical mythology or history, usually allegories of love or chastity.

Medium

Tempera on panel

Dimensions

unframed: 14 13/16 × 57 5/8 in. (37.7 × 146.3 cm)

Credit Line

University Purchase from James Jackson Jarves

Accession Number

1871.67

Geography

Made in Florence, Italy

Culture

Italian, Florence

Period

15th century

Classification

Paintings

Disclaimer

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Provenance
James Jackson Jarves Collection, Florence (said by Jarves to have come from the "Gallery of Prince Conti"); .
Bibliography
  • Burton B. Fredericksen and Federico Zeri, Census of Pre-Nineteenth-Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1972), 600
  • Mrs. Francis Steegmuller, The Two Lives of James Jackson Jarves (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1951), 299, fig. 13
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
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Object/Work type

figures (representations), histories (visual works)

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