UNKNOWN MASTER, Italian
(active 1489-1502 in Valle d'Aosta)

Tailor's and fabric shop

1489-1502
Fresco
Castello Challant, Issogne (Valle d'Aosta)

The lunette in the second bay of the loggia shows a view into a room in which two large counters stand parallel to the picture plane. On the one to the right there is a pile of brightly coloured bolts of cloth. Two men are about to cut a length from one of them. A tailor in a striped doublet is seated on the left-hand counter. To his right another man is cutting cloth with a huge pair of shears. A monkey is curled up on the red floor, possibly included because the monkey is a symbol of vanity.




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