Sujet
Panel from a Cassone: The Race of the Palio in the Streets of Florence, 1418. Creator: Giovanni Francesco Toscani (Italian, c. 1380-1430).
Légende
Panel from a Cassone: The Race of the Palio in the Streets of Florence, 1418. A cassone was a wooden chest used for the storage of clothing, an essential piece of furniture in Italian homes during the Renaissance and often produced in matched sets. The cassone was often made on the occasion of a marriage and elaborately decorated with painted scenes and gilded moldings. This panel comes from such a painted cassone. It was not uncommon for the painted decoration to represent a memorable event at the time of the marriage. This scene depicts the end of the Palio, a horse race held in the streets of Florence on the Feast of John the Baptist (June 24). The panel from the other side of the cassone is now preserved in the Bargello Museum in Florence and shows the procession of the Palii banners before the race. The cassone commemorates a wedding between members of the Fini and Aldobrandini families in 1418.
Crédit
Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art
Notre référence
HRM19F98_129
Model release
NA
Property release
NA
Licence
Droits gérés
Format disponible
84,3Mo (7,8Mo) / 84,0cm x 25,2cm / 9922 x 2971 (300dpi)