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016 Tarsia pav. del Transetto destro - Imperatore Sigismondo coi suoi ministri Siena
Artist: Domenico di Bartolo
Year: 1434
Current location: Cattedrale di Santa Maria Assunta
Original location: Cattedrale di Santa Maria Assunta
DESCRIPTIVE INFORMATION
In 1431 Emperor Sigismund visited Siena and citizens hoped fervently that he would take their part in the war against Florence: therefore his figure is between scenes of war, as the tutelary deity of a conflict deemed imminent. The Emperor is shown seated on a throne in a kiosk Renaissance, with a niche, with a frieze oculi, columns and festoons governed by two putti heraldic shields with the imperial eagle. On the steps before the throne there are six figures sitting or standing, whose clothing helps detect in court dignitaries, civil and military. The scene was paid in 1434 to Domenico di Bartolo and is an important record of the update issues renaissance in the land of Siena: the use of the perfect centric perspective in the 30s is an achievement that in those same years in the same Florence was sporadically applied. The box was already restored in 1485 and again in the second half of the nineteenth century.
016 Tarsia pav. del Transetto destro - Imperatore Sigismondo coi suoi ministri