SODOMA, Il
(b. 1477, Vercelli, d. 1549, Siena)

Life of St Benedict, Scene 8: Benedict is Tempted (detail)

1505-08
Fresco
Abbazia, Monteoliveto Maggiore

The picture shows the landscape detail of Scene 8 of the cycle which depicts as Benedict is tempted by impure thought, but resists them.

Among the subjects of the cycle there are the temptations of the flesh to which the founder was exposed both as a solitary hermit and together with his fellow monks.




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