1483 · Boccaccio, Florence and four wedding panels
Discover the four panels of the History of Nastagio degli Onesti designed by Botticelli, hand reproduced in oil on canvas.
1483 · Boccaccio, Florence and four wedding panels
Painted in 1483 to celebrate the wedding of Giannozzo Pucci and Lucrezia Bini, the four panels of the History of Nastagio degli Onesti formed a spalliera intended to decorate a Florentine residence. Botticelli designed the compositions with the participation of his workshop, notably Bartolomeo di Giovanni and Jacopo del Sellaio. The story comes from the eighth short story of the fifth day of Boccaccio's Decameron. Nastagio, a young nobleman from Ravenna rejected by Paolo Traversari's daughter, retires to the Class pine forest. He sees a naked woman pursued by dogs and a knight. The specter reveals that she had rejected him, causing his suicide; every Friday, they repeat the chase and murder in hell. Nastagio then invites her beloved and her family to a banquet in the forest so that they can witness the apparition. Frightened, the young woman finally agrees to marry him. The first three panels, today at the Prado, multiply several moments of the story in the same continuous landscape; the fourth, in a private collection, represents the wedding banquet. Vertical pines, architecture, Florentine costumes, dogs and rapid gestures unite decorative beauty and moral violence. The cycle bears witness as much to the literary culture of the elites as to the tensions surrounding marriage, desire and power. The cycle bears witness as much to the literary culture of the elites as to the tensions surrounding marriage, desire and power. The cycle bears witness as much to the literary culture of the elites as to the tensions surrounding marriage, desire and power. The cycle bears witness to the literary culture of the elites as to the tensions surrounding marriage, desire and power. The cycle bears witness to the literary culture of the elites as to the tensions surrounding marriage, desire and power. The cycle bears witness to the literary culture of the elites as to the tensions surrounding marriage, desire and power. The cycle bears witness to the literary culture of the elites as to the tensions surrounding marriage, desire and power. The cycle bears witness to both the literary culture of the elites and the tensions Sandro Botticelli" notably compares The History of Nastagio degli Onesti and The History of Nastagio degli Onesti. His reading favors composition.
Botticelli unfolds time in the landscape: the same Nastagio reappears, runs, looks and understands while the pine forest transforms the story into continuous theater.
Course & style
A refused love leads the young nobleman into the pine forest where an infernal punishment begins again. This milestone sheds light on the collection "History of Nastagio degli Onesti by Sandro Botticelli" by favoring composition.
Four decorative panels adapt the story to the challenges of a Florentine alliance.
Repeated vision becomes strategy before the final marriage.
The same character appears several times in a landscape to advance the action. This trait guides a reading of "History of Nastagio degli Onesti by Sandro Botticelli" centered on composition.
Vertical trunks order episodes and deepen space.
Gestures, dogs, horses and draperies give the drama an almost choreographic fluidity.
Elegance of the costumes and beauty of the decor make the violence more disturbing.
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The cycle transposes the octave story of the fifth day of the Decameron.
For history. Reading of "History of Nastagio degli Onesti by Sandro Botticelli" by composition.The Class landscape becomes the place of desire, fear and revelation.
For spaceHorses, dogs and repeated figures speed up the reading of the panel.
For movementThe infernal scene arises at the heart of a very orderly social ritual.
For dramaBridal decor and constraining narrative give the cycle a modern ambiguity.
To understandA large horizontal preserves the succession of episodes and the rhythm of the pines.
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Four active reproductions allow you to find the different panels and variants of the cycle designed in 1483.
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