Trionfo dell'amore 

Curator: Right now we're looking at 'Trionfo dell'amore' attributed to Lo Scheggia. Painted in tempera, it reflects Italian Renaissance artistic trends. It's a complex allegorical scene depicting the triumph of love. What are your first thoughts about this work? Editor: Wow, my first impression is... theatrical! It feels like peeking into a wild, allegorical play. Cupid aiming his arrow, that chariot, those figures – the composition screams dramatic! Curator: Yes, and considering its possible function as a decorative panel for a Florentine home, theatricality fits. It likely was meant to showcase wealth, learning and refinement by depicting literary or philosophical themes fashionable during the Renaissance. Note how this triumphant Cupid figure on the top presides over the landscape. Editor: Triumph, indeed! Looking closer, the landscape feels surreal, almost dreamlike. And are those casualties of love under the chariot wheels? That’s quite a dark spin, isn't it? I'd bet my beret it was a great topic of discussion at those parties. Curator: Undoubtedly. Such details reinforced classical ideas and also functioned as conversation pieces, reflecting the patron’s cultivated interests. Lo Scheggia creates not merely decorative art but sophisticated visual statements deeply entwined with the social values of that era. Editor: Seeing those varied emotions, the whole spectrum is present here. Love does make you mad! Even so I am amazed that even back then love had already so many facets as is now. Curator: Certainly, it offers insight into Renaissance-era interpretations of the concept of Love as a potent force impacting lives both comically and tragically, a narrative very self aware. Editor: From Lo Scheggia’s painting, it appears that through beauty, theatrics, and moral discussion he achieved exactly what he had anticipated at the very first sight! Curator: A very fulfilling purpose. We are very fortunate, even to this day, to learn from him through this artwork and similar Italian Renaissance paintings, a unique testimony on how things where, from their very makers!