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Description: | This painting is an allegory of Chastity, represented by a virgin with a unicorn crouching at her feet and resting its head on her lap. The unicorn, symbolic of holiness and chastity, is a fabled beast and is pure white, having the head and legs of a horse and a long, twisted horn set in the middle of its forehead. Traditionally, the unicorn can only be trapped by a virginal maiden. This is reflected in the inscription 'KSTITA' which refers to the Italian word of Castità . This painting is attributed to a follower of Timoteo Viti, an Italian painter, from Urbino. His works are strongly influenced by Raphael. | Subjects: | landscape; figure; animal (unicorn); allegory (chastity); religion (virgin) | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Viti, Timoteo (Italian painter, 1469-1523) Æ Circle of Previously attributed to circle of Dossi, Dosso (Italian painter, ca. 1486-1542) | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8339... | Go to resource |
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