This emblematic painting appears on the back of Da Vinci's portrait Ginevra de' Benci. It depicts a scroll which reads 'Beauty Adorns Virtue', and symbols which allude to Ginevra's intellectual and moral virtues (the laurel and palm), and a juniper sprig at the centre, ginepro in Italian, suggests her name. The laurel and palm were also emblems of the Venetian ambassador to Florence, Bernardo Bembo, with whom Ginevra shared a close, platonic relationship, and his motto of 'Virtue and Honour', visible only via infrared, appears below hers. It is possible that Bembo commissioned the paintings.