manuel cohen

Fresco, Palazzo della Ragione, Padua, Italy

Painter at work with assistant grinding pigment, trade for the month of September (Mercury, Virgo), detail from fresco cycle, 1425-40, by Niccolo Miretto and Stefano de Ferrare, based on astrological studies by Pietro d'Abano, in the Salone of the Palazzo della Ragione, built 1218-1306, in Padua, Veneto, Italy. The building was previously the city hall, market and law courts and contained frescoes attributed to Giotto which were destroyed in 1420. The palace forms part of a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen

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Painter at work with assistant grinding pigment, trade for the month of September (Mercury, Virgo), detail from fresco cycle, 1425-40, by Niccolo Miretto and Stefano de Ferrare, based on astrological studies by Pietro d'Abano, in the Salone of the Palazzo della Ragione, built 1218-1306, in Padua, Veneto, Italy. The building was previously the city hall, market and law courts and contained frescoes attributed to Giotto which were destroyed in 1420. The palace forms part of a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen