 In this interpretation the contents of the urn beside the clothed woman are the ashes of the bride's father, and the naked figure is Venus as Truth, and/or Charity.Although the first record of a version of what is now the usual title is only in an inventory of 1693, it remains possible that the two female figures are indeed intended to be personifications of the Neoplatonic concepts of sacred and profane love.The art historian Walter Friedländer outlined similarities between the painting and Francesco Colonna's "Hypnerotomachia Poliphili" and proposed that the two figures represented Polia and Venere, the two female characters in the 1499 romance.