LORENZETTI, Pietro
(b. ca. 1280, Siena, d. 1348, Siena)

Road to Calvary

c. 1320
Fresco
Lower Church, San Francesco, Assisi

The picture shows one of the scenes from the life of Christ painted by Pietro Lorenzetti on the vault of the south arm of the western transept of the Lower Church.

This scene has the tragic cadence of a procession of Flagellants, like the ones used to travel along the roads of Umbria on Good Friday, accompanied by the singing of lauds and marching to the rhythm of their scourges.