FRANCESCO DI GIORGIO MARTINI
(b. 1439, Siena, d. 1502, Siena)

Allegory of Discord

1477-80
Stucco relief, 50 x 67 cm
Victoria and Albert Museum, London

The subject of this plaster relief - perhaps Lycurgus, who ordered the slaughter of the Maenads - seems mainly an excuse to display nude figures in as many contortions as possible, set against a perspectival backdrop.