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

Painted architecture

c. 1320
Fresco
Lower Church, San Francesco, Assisi

The picture shows the painted architecture under the Deposition from the Cross in the south arm of the western transept.

Below the representations of Sts Rufino, Catherine of Alexandria, Clare and Margaret, there is a trompe l'oeil bench, empty, placed against the wall, with a soft fur spread over it.




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