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The shape of the panel suggests that the painting was designed as the spalliera (backboard) of a bench or cassone (chest) in a Tuscan palace bedchamber. The imagery would have been regarded as suitable for a married couple and weddings were the pretexts for the decoration of such rooms. NG 915 was probably painted in the mid-1480s. The Allegory by a follower of Botticelli (NG 916) was once regarded as a pendant.
Bought in Florence by Alexander Barker before 1869; bought, 1874.
Davies 1961, pp. 99-101
Gombrich 1972, pp. 66-9
Lightbown 1978, II, pp. 55-6
Woolf 1988, pp. 49-50
Dunkerton 1991, p. 336', 'ObjectStatusID' : '1', 'PublicAccess' : '1', 'GroupNumber' : '', 'GroupTitle' : '', 'GroupArtist' : '', 'GroupDate' : '', 'GroupParts' : '', 'ImageID' : '2583', 'ImageFile' : 'N-0915-00-000037-WZ-PYR.tif', 'ImageCode' : 'N-0915-00-000037-WZ', 'ImagePath' : '/pics/tmp/websiteimages/Website_Collection_Online/Web Zoom Images/WZ web NG Fronts/', 'ImageLevels' : '6', 'ImageXsize' : '6000', 'ImageYsize' : '2398', 'FileGroup_ID' : '14', 'impos' : '198'} /* Array ( [0] =>

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Davies 1961, pp. 99-101
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