The Story of Nastagio Degli Onesti, part three
1483 Museo del Prado
About this artwork
This panel painting is the third in a series illustrating a story from Boccaccio's Decameron. It depicts a dramatic moment during an outdoor banquet where Nastagio degli Onesti observes a spectral hunt involving a knight pursuing and brutally attacking a naked woman with dogs.
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The series of panels depicting "The Story of Nastagio degli Onesti" illustrates a moral tale from Giovanni Boccaccio's Decameron. In this particular scene, Nastagio, having been rejected by his beloved, witnesses a ghostly knight eternally pursuing and punishing a woman who scorned him in life. Nastagio cleverly uses this terrifying vision to persuade his own beloved to accept his advances, highlighting the dramatic use of supernatural elements in Renaissance narrative art.
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The Story of Nastagio Degli Onesti, part three
Sandro Botticelli, 1483
