DOMENICO DI BARTOLO
(b. ca. 1400, Asciano, d. ca. 1447, Siena)

Caring for the Sick (detail)

1440
Fresco
Pellegrinaio, Spedale di Santa Maria della Scala, Siena

In the Caring for the Sick Domenico combines specific portraiture with a sensitive treatment of the nude figure. The unidealized bodies of the sick man being placed in bed and the wounded man being washed rank among the most naturalistic figures in Quattrocento painting.




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