Date : approx. between 1493 and 1500
Dimensions : 154 cm x 62 cm
Material : Oil painting and tempera on wood
Acquisition : Purchase
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Italian Painting
Painting (Sc?ne ext?rieure)
Area related
Siena (Italy)
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Painted for a Sienese palace, these pictures by an unidentified painter tell Boccaccio's story of the marriage of the Marquis Gualtieri di Saluzzo and the peasant girl, Griselda.
In this second panel, which reads left to right, the now married Marquis further tests his wife Griselda by removing her newborn daughter and son and pretending he has had them killed (left background). Underneath the loggia in the centre he then stages a fake divorce. Griselda returns her wedding ring and once again she is publicly stripped, though this time she is allowed to keep her shift, in which she desolately returns (left) to her father's house.
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