In the years 1469/70, Cosimo Tura and Francesco del Cossa painted some allegorical frescoes for the Este family in their Palazzo Schifanoia right outside the walls of Ferrara. This is a detail from the background of the Allegory of April, showing the three Graces, the oldest surviving post-classical rendering of this subject.

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