Veritas filia Temporis

The canvas depicts the Truth, which hovers naked in the air supported by an old winged man, his father, Time, as revealed by the traditional attribute of the hourglass that he holds in his right hand. The third figure, a winged young man who grabs the Truth by the ankle trying to drag her down, represents the allegory of Deception. The subject is part of a program aimed at dramatizing the struggle between good and evil using figures from both classical mythology and the Christian religion, in a casual synthesis of pagan and Christian motifs that was common to a good part of the humanistic culture of the time. The octagonal format of the canvas and the view from below of the figures is typical of a ceiling painting.