File:EB1911 Tapestry - Brussels - early 16th century - Triumph of Chastity over Love.jpg
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English: Part of a wall hanging of tapestry woven (probably at Brussels early in the 16th century) with coloured wools and silks, which is one of a series designed to illustrate the Triumphs written by Petrarch. The episode represented is the Triumph of Chastity over Love. Falling from a triumphal car fitted with flaming altars or torches of love, and drawn by four winged white horses, is Cupid, whose left arm is grasped by Chastity mounted on a unicorn and carrying the column symbolizing Strength or Constancy. Foremost in the multitude about the car of Love are Cleopatra and Julius Caesar. In another part of this hanging is the date 1507. The height of this piece is 14 ft. This, with tapestries of the Triumph of Death and Fame, is in the Victoria and Albert Museum: one hanging of the Triumph of Time is at Hampton Court. |
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| Date | published 1911 | |||
| Source | “Tapestry,” Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.), v. 26, 1911, fig. 17 (plate IV). | |||
| Author | probably by some member of the school of Roger van der Weyden | |||
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