Forest Scene from the Tale of Nastagio degli Onesti, in Boccaccio's "Decameron", Davide Ghirlandaio, between 1483 and 1525

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. Object Type: painting. Date: between 1483 and 1525. Dimensions: height: 69.9 cm (27.5 in); width: 134.6 cm (52.9 in). Medium: tempera on panel. Collection: Brooklyn Museum. Brooklyn Museum - Forest Scene from the Tale of Nastagio degli Onesti in Boccaccio's "Decameron" - Davide di Tommaso Bigordi aka Davide Ghirlandaio