# An Allegory of Love [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [SCHIAVO, Paolo]() - Date: 1401-1450 - Technique: Tempera on panel, 39 x 146 cm ## Commentary An Allegory of Love c. 1440 Tempera on panel, 39 x 146 cm Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven Long, horizontal panels such as this were painted to decorate the fronts of furniture chests, called cassoni. In early fifteenth-century Florence, cassoni were commonly commissioned in pairs on the occasion of patrician marriages as part of the bride's trousseau. Their painted subjects were often drawn from classical mythology or history, usually allegories of love or chastity. ## Related artworks - [Adoration of the Magi \(detail\)]() - [Adoration of the Magi.]() - [Adoration of the Magi]() - [An Allegory of Love \(detail\)]() - [Annunciation and Saints]() - [Crucifixion]() - [Crucifixion]() - [Crucifixion]() - [Death of Mary]() - [Flight into Egypt]() - [Madonna della Cintola \(detail\)]() - [Madonna della Cintola \(detail\)]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()