Triumph of Caesar

Spotted: Pinned to own Pinterest, after Google Image Search, 16 July 2018

"Triumph of Caesar" is a salon fresco in the Medici Villa in Pogio a Caiano in Florence, Italy. It's one of the the Medici's commissions to Andrea Del Sarto, who was born on 16 July 1486, on the month named after Julius Caesar.

Art in Tuscany notes, however, that the unfolding narrative on the painting "alludes to events of purely local import, such as the return of Cosimo de' Medici from exile in 1434 or the donation of the Sultan of Egypt to the Florentines in 1487 of a menagerie of exotic animals."

The fresco was completed by another artist, Alessandro Alliori.


[This post is antedated: 20180725]