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The placement of a maiden on a boulder who holds a sun in the right hand while resting the left leg on the Earth is in accordance with the popular canonical iconography detailed by Cesare Ripa in his famous book Iconologia (Italian for Iconology). Many drawings for the planned sculptural group are known, and in the figure of Truth one can recognize similarities with Correggio's unfinished Allegory of Virtue which is housed in the Galleria Doria Pamphilj in Rome where Bernini might have seen it. Within traditional iconographical conventions, the specific positioning of the legs was also a means of communicating sexual messages to the viewer.
Cesare Ripa Iconologia Allegory Rome Allegory of Virtue Correggio Galleria Doria Pamphilj