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DOI Artikel:Spychalska-Boczkowska, Anna: Diana with Meleagros and Actaeon: some remarks on a XV-century Italian cassone
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2. Mariotto di Nardo, Bridal Platę, New York, Metropolitan Museum (photo after Antal)
of grading of tlie colours of the clothes are closely allied in both the works although the picture
in Warsaw represents a lower artistic level. The common o-igin of the two is further indicated
by the iconographic detail, ideutical in both, which is the motif of memento mori prestnting
an empty tomb emerging from a rock cave placed on the righthand side of the foreground of
the Warsaw picture and in the background of the picture by Mariotto di Nardo. Another cha-
racteristic motif of both the pictures is the indicating gestures of the hands of certain figures
accentuating the importance of definite scenes and their mutual relationship.
A picture painted in the same style as the picture in the National Museum in Warsaw and the
picture by Mariotto di Nardo is the Hunling Scenę on bridal plate in the Metropolitan Museum
of Art (Fig. 3).6 One of its fragments where is a group of three women sitting r.ear a fountain in
6. This analogy has been pointed out by J. Białostocki. See R. van Marle, Iconographie de Vart profane au Moyen Age et a la
Renjissance, la Haye, 1931, V. II, fig. 458, 328-30.
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of grading of tlie colours of the clothes are closely allied in both the works although the picture
in Warsaw represents a lower artistic level. The common o-igin of the two is further indicated
by the iconographic detail, ideutical in both, which is the motif of memento mori prestnting
an empty tomb emerging from a rock cave placed on the righthand side of the foreground of
the Warsaw picture and in the background of the picture by Mariotto di Nardo. Another cha-
racteristic motif of both the pictures is the indicating gestures of the hands of certain figures
accentuating the importance of definite scenes and their mutual relationship.
A picture painted in the same style as the picture in the National Museum in Warsaw and the
picture by Mariotto di Nardo is the Hunling Scenę on bridal plate in the Metropolitan Museum
of Art (Fig. 3).6 One of its fragments where is a group of three women sitting r.ear a fountain in
6. This analogy has been pointed out by J. Białostocki. See R. van Marle, Iconographie de Vart profane au Moyen Age et a la
Renjissance, la Haye, 1931, V. II, fig. 458, 328-30.
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