GIROLAMO DI BENVENUTO
(b. 1470, Siena, d. 1524, Siena)

Hercules at the Crossroad

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Panel, diameter 57 cm
Galleria Franchetti, Ca' d'Oro, Venice

The picture shows the front of a birth tray. (A tray was given on the occasion of weddings or birth.) On the back of the tray appear the coats-of-arms of the families united in wedlock.