SPINELLO ARETINO
(b. ca. 1345, Arezzo, d. 1410, Arezzo)

The Funeral of St Benedict

1388
Fresco
Sacristy, San Miniato al Monte, Florence

In scene 16 (the last scene of the cycle) on the south wall, the funeral of St Benedict is depicted. After Benedict's death, two brothers of the order see the saint ascending to heaven on a path covered with carpets. His body is buried in Montecassino in the oratory of St John the Baptist, which Benedict himself had built over the ruins of a temple dedicated to Apollo.




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