The Triumph of Venus

ca. 1500 (Renaissance)

141.6 cm 32.9 cm 1 cm

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This painting is inspired by the allegorical poem "The Triumphs," written by the Italian poet Petrarch (1304-74). It appears to combine two of the triumphs, that of (erotic) Love, which in Petrarch's poem is vanquished by Chastity...which is vanquished by Death (vanquished by...

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Marquess Filippo Marignoli, Rome and Spoleto, until 1898 [mode of acquisition unknown]; Marquess Francesco Marignoli, 1898 [mode of acquisition unknown]; Don Marcello Massarenti Collection, Rome, 1899 [mode of acquisition unknown] [1900 catalogue supplement: no. 33, as Lorenzo Costa]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1902, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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