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

View of one of the long sides of the vault

1519-23
Fresco
Palazzo Venturi, Siena

The picture shows one of the long sides of the vault with the following depictions: The Oath of Attilius Regulus (left) and Judgment of Zaleukos (right) in the two octagons, Prometheus Forms Man (left), Three Graces (centre), and Judgment of Paris (right) in the three oculi. The six female figures around the oculi are (from left to right) Sophonisbe, Dido, Esther, Judith, Portia, unidentified.