Sundial on frescoed panel
Sundial on frescoed panel, inserted in a niche above the front door.
A niche, discovered during the restoration of the façade, which probably housed a votive shrine, now irretrievably lost, was the inspiration for the creation of a sundial.
The previous votive shrine has been brought back to life in the fresco, in the form of a country shrine observed by a young woman, while behind her, an old peasant woman walks away. The bucolic landscape features symbols of Catholic devotion and the passing of the seasons, both those of nature and those of man.
The sundial dial indicates the true solar hours of the place, the solstices and equinoxes, and has been traced on a parchment unrolled above the landscape, at the foot of which wildflowers and ears of wheat, symbols of vanitas, emerge.
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