BECCAFUMI, Domenico
(b. ca. 1486, Castel Monaperto, d. 1551, Siena)

View of one of the short sides of the vault

1519-23
Fresco
Palazzo Venturi, Siena

The picture shows the scene of Cato's Suicide in one of the six octagons surrounding the central scenes. To the left and right in the oculi are Hercules at the Crossroads and Athena and Poseidon, respectively. The female figures are (from left to right) Lucretia, Pero, Eva, unidentified.




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