Showing posts with label Decameron. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Decameron. Show all posts

Sunday, February 22, 2009

nastagio degli onesti

nastagio degli onesti
This is Boticelli's strange image of Nastagio watching the ghosts of a woman and a knight symbolically re-enacting a doomed courtship. ('Symbolically' being the operative word!)
I love the way the white horse is gleaming against the dark forest.

The story is taken from Boccaccio's Decameron.