the Triumph of Chastity is a work of Piero della Francesca, carried out between 1460 and 1470, an oil on wood (rare at Piero) and preserved at the Offices of Florence.

Composition

It is about a diptych (two panels) with double face including:

With the recto

Portraits of the duke of Urbin Frederic III of Montefeltro and its wife Battista Sforza.

The two profiles face on bottom of a idealized landscape and in prospect.

With the back

the two panels, of which their thirds of bottom comprise a Latin text, represent their arrival in the city accompanied by angels and unicorns, symbols of chastity in two triumphal tanks which advance one towards the other:

• the duke Frederic sat on one of them, crowned by the Victoire , upright behind him.
  Les horses is led by the Love , and, in front of the prince, are grouped the cardinal Virtues .
• the duchess occupies the other, also sitted and escorted of two figures of women.
  Son tank is harnessed unicorns, symbols of purity, is acompagné of the Faith and Charity .

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