Botticelli made this painting on the description of a painting by Apelles, a Greek painter of the Hellenistic period. Apelles' works have not survived, but Lucian recorded details of one in his On Calumny:
“On the right of it sits Midas with very large ears, extending his hand to Slander while she is still at some distance from him. Near him, on one side, stand two women—Ignorance and Suspicion. On the other side, Slander is coming up, a woman beautiful beyond measure, but full of malignant passion and excitement, evincing as she does fury and wrath by carrying in her left hand a blazing torch and with the other dragging by the hair a young man who stretches out his hands to heaven and calls the gods to witness his innocence. She is conducted by a pale ugly man who has piercing eye and looks as if he had wasted away in long illness; he represents envy. There are two women in attendance to Slander, one is Fraud and the other Conspiracy. They are followed by a woman dressed in deep mourning, with black clothes all in tatters—she is Repentance. At all events, she is turning back with tears in her eyes and casting a stealthy glance, full of shame, at Truth, who is slowly approaching.”
Dată
circa 1496 – 1497
date QS:P571,+1496-00-00T00:00:00Z/8,P1319,+1496-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1497-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
Collection Rodolfo Sirigatti, Florența
Collection Bianca Cappello, Florența
-1632: Collection don Antonio de' Medici, Florența
-1773: Palazzo Pitti, Galleria Palatina e Appartamenti, Archivio segreto, Florența
1773: Galleria degli Uffizi, Palazzo degli Uffizi, Florența
13-6-1940: Villa medicea di Poggio a Caiano, Poggio a Caiano
31-10-1940: Eremo di Camaldoli, Poppi, Camaldoli
8-6-1945: Galleria degli Uffizi, Palazzo degli Uffizi, Deposito, Florența
24-6-1948: Galleria degli Uffizi, Palazzo degli Uffizi, Florența
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