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The Chess Players

The Chess Players






Date : near 1475

Sizes : 41 cm x 35 cm
Material : Tempera on canvas
Acquisition : Maitland F. Griggs Collection, Bequest of Maitland F. Griggs (1943)
Item 2 on 27
Italian Painting
Painting

Area related
Siena (Italy)

Description   

In this fragment of a cassone panel, two lovers are playing chess (the youth is about to checkmate the young woman). Another fragment, showing an earlier moment in the story, hangs nearby, while a third fragment, with male spectators, belongs to the Berenson collection (Florence,Villa I Tatti).
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Metropolitan Museum of Art :
Fra Filippo Lippi, Ghirlandaio - Secular painting
Scene from a Novella
Scène intérieure
Liberale da Verona
Sizes : 33 cm x 41 cm
approx. from 1467 to 1476
The Chess Players
Liberale da Verona