Battle of Horsemen

The large detached fresco is a rare and important example of 15th century secular painting in Trentino. It is, actually, a fragment of a grandiose chivalrous cycle commissioned around 1452 by the noble Lodron family to an unknown painter to decorate of the halls of the Romano castle in Valle del Chiese. The detachment was made in 1914, shortly before the mansion was severely damaged by WWI bombs.
The scene depicts a group of horsemen who, at the sound of the trumpets, advances from left to right, leaving the camp behind them, to approach the enemy’s army visible only in part on the right.
The episode’s literary source is probably an epic poem or a courtly literary composition.