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Taddeo di Bartolo (1362-1422) Italian, Sienese
Saint Christopher
Taddeo created this magnificent painting of Saint Christopher for the Civic Museum inside the Palazzo Pubblico overlooking the Piazza del Campo. Saint Christopher served Christ by helping travelers to cross a dangerous river. The good hearted Saint was later martyred in the reign of the 3rd century. The Palazzo Pubblico was built in the early 1300s by the Government of Nove. It is a masterpiece of Gothic urban architecture. In the Great Council Hall there are extraordinary frescoes by Simone Martini depicting a beautiful Maestą and next door, in the Hall of Nine there is the amazing fresco cycle by Ambrogio Lorenzetti showing the Allegory and Effects of Good and Bad Government.
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