Description

Painting made by Silvia Salvadori. Icon of Christ, art reproduction by Duccio di Buoninsegna. Sienese painting. Predella: Temptation of Christ on the mountain. Stories of Christ, "Jesus casts out Satan". Predella della Maestà, Siena. Icon, tempera on a pure gold background, gold engravings, antique table. Duccio di Buoninsegna in the fourteenth century represents the second and third temptations of Christ in two tablets of the predella della Maestà di Siena; in the second we see Christ and the devil, who orders him to throw himself into the void, facing a loggia of a building; in the other Christ is on a mountain which dominates an urban landscape and with his arm he pushes the devil away while the angels on his right are ready to help him. Here Duccio di Buoninsegna wants to show the devil in his original essence of rebel angel and in the fifteenth century also Lorenzo Ghiberti takes up this compositional theme in a door of the baptistery of Florence, depicting the devil with bird's legs and bat wings. From this moment on, the devil tends to lose the monstrosity of previous centuries and appears with human features.