The story tells of a reluctant bride who is hunted and slaughtered by the knight she has rejected, and then suffers the same fate each week as a ghost. The painter uses native umbrella pines to frame the characters in this human hunt. The fading blue mountains in the distance reveal the recent innovation of aerial perspective, introduced to Florence
by Leonardo da Vinci.
<bdi><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Davide_Ghirlandaio" class="extiw" title="w:en:Davide Ghirlandaio"><span title="Italian painter (1452-1525)">Davide Ghirlandaio</span></a>
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between 1483 and 1525 <div style="display: none;">date QS:P571,+1500-00-00T00:00:00Z/6,P1319,+1483-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1525-00-00T00:00:00Z/9</div>
<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/23788/Forest_Scene_from_the_Tale_of_Nastagio_degli_Onesti_in_Boccaccios_Decameron">Online Collection</a> of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooklyn_Museum" class="extiw" title="w:Brooklyn Museum">Brooklyn Museum</a>; Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 25.95_SL1.jpg