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017 Tarsia pavimentale del Transetto destro - Morte di Assalonne Siena
Year: 1447
Current location: Cattedrale di Santa Maria Assunta
Original location: Cattedrale di Santa Maria Assunta
DESCRIPTIVE INFORMATION
Framed by Gothic trefoil arches, shows the punishment of Absalom, David's rebellious son, who was caught fleeing with her hair in a tree where he met and killed by the partisans of his father. The story is clarified inscription that runs behind the scene: absalon saw pender pe 'hair, then that Fedo the father's room, and was tucto' nflizato of squares. Two groups of armed men are hanging around the figure of Absalom, ideally combined lines of the shafts of spears that pierce the prince. The style is characterized by a sharp compositional clarity, with some stylized Gothic style, such as contour lines rather nervous and stylization of nature as the leaves of the trees represented one by one. It is the work of Peter the Minnella, master builder of the cathedral already active also in Orvieto, who built it in 1447.
017 Tarsia pavimentale del Transetto destro - Morte di Assalonne