Sienese Government Officials Receiving an Embassy

c. 1440–50

Tempera and gold on panel

26 × 37 cm (10.2 × 14.6 in)

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FROM THE BARNES FOUNDATION’S CATALOG

A delegation led by an official riding a white horse enters Siena through the city's northern gate, the Porta Camollia. The equestrian figure holding a mace appears in four other similar panels; in each case he is depicted as a civic or military protagonist. Now dispersed across different collections, the size and subject matter of these panels suggest that they originally decorated a cassone, or marriage chest.

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