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Il Sodoma, ciclo di affreschi nel Chiostro Grande dell'Abbazia di Monte Oliveto Maggiore, le storie di San Benedetto, Scena 17 -Benedict turns into a snake a bottle of wine that a servant had hidden.(1)
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Il Sodoma Le storie di San Benedetto, Scena 30 - Come Benedetto predice la distruzione di Montecassino | Chiostro grande del monastero di Monte Oliveto Maggiore Life of St Benedict, Scene 30: Benedict Foretells the Destruction of Montecassino | The Great Cloister, Abbey of Monte Oliveto Maggiore |
Scene 30 of the cycle on the life of St Benedict depicts Benedict foretelling the destruction of Montecassino. In some of his scenes (e.g. in Scene 30) Sodoma illustrates successive phases of a single event. That this technique might be used to depict moment-by-moment developments within a particular episode is vividly illustrated by Scene 6, which also happens to incorporate a real window in the picture composition. In this scene the viewer is far more captivated by the massive rump of a horse looming up in the foreground or the two men scuffling on the right than by the actual subject matter, which is presented only in a tiny secondary scene in the background.
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Il Sodoma, Life of St Benedict, Scene 30: Benedict Foretells the Destruction of Montecassino,
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Il Sodoma, autoritratto nel ciclo di affreschi nel Chiostro Grande dell'Abbazia di Monte Oliveto Maggiore
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Monte Oliveto Maggiore,
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The Tuscan Maremma (view from Podere Santa Pia, a beautiful holiday home that has the authentic feel of old Tuscan country houses) (2)
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