The Story of Nastagio Degli Onesti, part one
1483 Museo del Prado
About this artwork
This painting is the first of a series of four panels illustrating a tale from Giovanni Boccaccio's Decameron. It depicts Nastagio degli Onesti's initial encounter with the spectral hunt in the pine forest of Ravenna.
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The story of Nastagio degli Onesti, from Boccaccio's Decameron, tells of a young man who, heartbroken, retreats to a pine forest. There, he witnesses a spectral hunt where a knight eternally pursues and brutally kills a nude woman, only for her to be resurrected and the chase to begin anew. This gruesome spectacle, a punishment for the woman's cruelty in rejecting the knight's love, inspires Nastagio to stage a similar dinner scene, ultimately leading to his own beloved agreeing to marry him out of fear of a similar fate.
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The Story of Nastagio Degli Onesti, part one
Sandro Botticelli, 1483
