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Tournament and Hunting Scenes

Azzo di Masetto1289

Fondazione Musei Senesi

Fondazione Musei Senesi
Siena, Italy

The frescoes quite vivacious and enganging from a narrative point of view, include episodes of courtly life, such as knights battling in tournaments, hunting scenes and, on the wall facing the entrance a depiction of the emperor Charles d'Anjou enthroned amid courtesans and falconers, especially referring his passage in Florence in the same year. This scene probably refers to pacts of alliance between the sorveign and the Chelphs of Florence and San Gimignano, and is intended to memorialise for posterity an occasion of significant relevance for the city.

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  • Title: Tournament and Hunting Scenes
  • Creator Lifespan: documented from 1282
  • Creator Nationality: Italian
  • Creator Gender: male
  • Creator Birth Place: Florence
  • Date Created: 1289
  • painter: Azzo di Masetto
  • collocation: San Gimignano, Civic Museums of San Gimignano: Palazzo Comunale, Picture Gallery, Big Tower, Province of Siena
  • Place Part Of: Province of Siena
  • Artist Biography: Azzo di Masetto, whose unfortunately there are no signed works but just few documents, studied by Cimabue workshop in the late XIIIth century, while looking to the new suggestions by Giotto. His style is charachterised by very bright colous, the decorative attitude of some details from French tradition and the narrative abilities.
  • Type: fresco
  • Rights: Comune di San Gimignano; Fondazione Musei Senesi, Fondazione Musei Senesi
  • External Link: Fondazione Musei Senesi
Fondazione Musei Senesi

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