# The Combat of Love and Chastity

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## Artwork

- Artist: [GHERARDO DI GIOVANNI DEL FORA](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/gherardo-di-giovanni-del-fora-re6bc6c789a1bb5>)
- Date: 1451-1500
- Technique: Tempera on panel, 43 x 35 cm

## Commentary

The painting seems to have been part of a series illustrating the &#39;Triumphs&#39; by the poet Petrarch \(1304-1374\). Love&#39;s arrows break against Chastity&#39;s shield; she waves the chain with which he will be bound. A companion painting in Turin shows Love bound in Chastity&#39;s triumphal chariot. Other paintings in the series also survive. They were probably made for a piece of Florentine furniture towards the end of the 15th century.

## Related artworks

- [Adoration of the Christ Child](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/gherardo-di-giovanni-del-fora-re6bc6c789a1bb5/adoration-of-the-christ-child-r46bf3457b2a12a>)
- [Bible of Matthias Corvinus \(Florentine Bible\)](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/gherardo-di-giovanni-del-fora-re6bc6c789a1bb5/bible-of-matthias-corvinus-florentine-bible-rc25142425f9b4c>)
- [Book of Hours](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/gherardo-di-giovanni-del-fora-re6bc6c789a1bb5/book-of-hours-rc3d904a546d783>)
- [Canzoniere for three and four voices](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/gherardo-di-giovanni-del-fora-re6bc6c789a1bb5/canzoniere-for-three-and-four-voices-rde467c1b342ba2>)
- [Homer: Works](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/gherardo-di-giovanni-del-fora-re6bc6c789a1bb5/homer-works-r2ebcd29fbf8cf0>)
- [Manuscript with Poems by Lucrezia Tornabuoni](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/gherardo-di-giovanni-del-fora-re6bc6c789a1bb5/manuscript-with-poems-by-lucrezia-tornabuoni-rfbff581174402b>)
- [Missal](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/gherardo-di-giovanni-del-fora-re6bc6c789a1bb5/missal-r1b87b8439a3666>)
- [Pope Martin V Confirming the Privileges of the Hospital](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/gherardo-di-giovanni-del-fora-re6bc6c789a1bb5/pope-martin-v-confirming-the-privileges-of-the-hospital-rdff3d9ea20ca3b>)
- [St Sebastian](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/gherardo-di-giovanni-del-fora-re6bc6c789a1bb5/st-sebastian-r2966ba9fdf7a45>)
- [The Triumph of Chastity](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/gherardo-di-giovanni-del-fora-re6bc6c789a1bb5/the-triumph-of-chastity-r558f985655017f>)
- [Virgin and Child with the Infant St John the Baptist and the Young St Jerome](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/gherardo-di-giovanni-del-fora-re6bc6c789a1bb5/virgin-and-child-with-the-infant-st-john-the-baptist-and-the-young-st-jerome-r5eab6446e73808>)

## Attribution

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