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Scene from a Novella

Scene from a Novella






Date : approx. between 1467 and 1476

Sizes : 41 cm x 33 cm
Material : Tempera on canvas
Acquisition : Gwynne Andrews Fund (1986)
Item 1 on 27
Italian Painting
Painting

Area related
Siena (Italy)

Description   

This fragment of a cassone panel shows the beginning of a love story, in which a maiden invites a youth into her home. In a second fragment, shown nearby, the two lovers play chess. The literary source has not been identified. Although damaged, these pictures are among Liberale's most engaging works.
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Metropolitan Museum of Art :
Fra Filippo Lippi, Ghirlandaio - Secular painting
The Chess Players
Scène intérieure
Liberale da Verona
Sizes : 35 cm x 41 cm
near 1475
Scene from a Novella
Liberale da Verona