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Sposalizio della Vergine Siena
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Artist: Domenico Beccafumi
Year: 1518
Current location: Oratorio di S.Bernardino - Museo Diocesano
Original location: Oratorio di San Bernardino al Prato
DESCRIPTIVE INFORMATION
Fresco, 295 x 304 cm.
The Marriage of the Virgin is a large fresco painted in 1518 by Domenico Beccafumi and located in the Oratory of San Bernardino in Siena.
The work is part of the pictorial decoration created together with Girolamo del Pacchia and Sodoma for the headquarters of the Confraternity.
The painting technique breaks the classical rules of symmetry with casual and dynamic figures.
The fresco includes lively details such as running children and the famous scene of the child bitten by a dog.
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