{"id":3217,"date":"2019-10-07T16:15:18","date_gmt":"2019-10-07T16:15:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antico.tornabuoniarte.it\/collezioni\/sacrifice-of-codrus\/"},"modified":"2026-06-30T15:54:52","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T15:54:52","slug":"sacrifice-of-codrus","status":"publish","type":"portfolio","link":"https:\/\/antico.tornabuoniarte.it\/en\/collections\/sacrifice-of-codrus\/","title":{"rendered":"Sacrifice of Codrus"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"gutenslider-0iw96um4u\" class=\"wp-block-eedee-block-gutenslider gs-frontend content-change alignnone adaptive-height arrow-style-1 arrow-position-sides arrow-mb-none arrows-lg arrows-md arrows-sm dot-style-1 dots-lg dots-md dots-sm dot-position-bottom is-position-center-center mb-none lg-zoom-icon wrap-auto-height\" data-parallax-direction=\"down\" data-parallax-amount=\"1.3\" data-lg-transition=\"lg-slide\" data-hash=\"\" ><div class=\"eedee-swiper-outer\" style=\"--gutenslider-min-height: 50vh;--gutenslider-arrow-size: 30px;--gutenslider-dot-size: 25px;--gutenslider-arrow-color: #ffffff;--gutenslider-dot-color: #ffffff;--gutenslider-padding-y-mobile: 40px;--gutenslider-padding-x-mobile: 40px;--gutenslider-padding-y-tablet: 40px;--gutenslider-padding-x-tablet: 40px;--gutenslider-padding-y-desktop: 40px;--gutenslider-padding-x-desktop: 40px;--gutenslider-bg-image: url();--gutenslider-min-height-md: 50vh;--gutenslider-min-height-sm: 50vh;--gutenslider-padding-x: 40px;--gutenslider-padding-x-md: 40px;--gutenslider-padding-x-sm: 20px;--gutenslider-padding-y: 40px;--gutenslider-padding-y-md: 40px;--gutenslider-padding-y-sm: 20px;--gutenslider-arrow-size-md: 30px;--gutenslider-arrow-size-sm: 30px;--gutenslider-dot-size-md: 25px;--gutenslider-dot-size-sm: 25px;--gutenslider-arrow-bg-color: transparent;--gutenslider-arrow-hover-color: #eeeeee;--gutenslider-arrow-bg-hover-color: transparent;--gutenslider-arrow-x-offset: 10px;--gutenslider-arrow-x-offset-md: 10px;--gutenslider-arrow-x-offset-sm: 10px;--gutenslider-arrow-y-offset: 0px;--gutenslider-arrow-y-offset-md: 0px;--gutenslider-arrow-y-offset-sm: 0px;--gutenslider-arrow-x-spacing: 0px;--gutenslider-dot-y-offset: 10px;--gutenslider-dot-y-offset-md: 10px;--gutenslider-dot-y-offset-sm: 10px;--gutenslider-margin-x: 0px;--gutenslider-margin-x-md: 0px;--gutenslider-margin-x-sm: 0px;--gutenslider-margin-y: 0px;--gutenslider-margin-y-md: 0px;--gutenslider-margin-y-sm: 0px;--gutenslider-divider-top: 60px;--gutenslider-divider-bottom: 60px;--gutenslider-lightgallery-bg: #ffffff;--gutenslider-lightgallery-font: #000000;--gs-first-pos: 50% 50%;--gs-gap-vertical: var( --wp--style--gallery-gap-default, var( --gallery-block--gutter-size, var( --wp--style--block-gap, 0.5em ) ) );--gs-gap-horizontal: var( --wp--style--gallery-gap-default, var( --gallery-block--gutter-size, var( --wp--style--block-gap, 0.5em ) ) );\"><div class=\"gutenslider-divider-top\" style=\"color:#fff;\"><\/div><div class=\"swiper\" data-settings='{\"autoplay\":{\"delay\":3000,\"pauseOnMouseEnter\":true,\"disableOnInteraction\":false},\"speed\":700,\"direction\":\"horizontal\",\"autoHeight\":\"\",\"loop\":true,\"centeredSlides\":true,\"spaceBetween\":0,\"slidesPerView\":1,\"slidesPerGroup\":1,\"effect\":\"slide\",\"coverflowEffect\":{\"rotate\":30,\"slideShadows\":false,\"depth\":100,\"stretch\":50,\"modifier\":1},\"fadeEffect\":{\"crossFade\":true},\"zoom\":\"\",\"navigation\":{\"nextEl\":\"#gutenslider-0iw96um4u .eedee-gutenslider-next\",\"prevEl\":\"#gutenslider-0iw96um4u .eedee-gutenslider-prev\"},\"pagination\":{\"type\":\"bullets\",\"clickable\":true,\"dynamicBullets\":false,\"el\":\"#gutenslider-0iw96um4u .eedee-gutenslider-pagination\"},\"pauseOnHover\":\"1\",\"watchSlidesProgress\":true,\"watchSlidesVisibility\":true,\"settingsMd\":{\"autoHeight\":\"\",\"slidesPerView\":1,\"slidesPerGroup\":1,\"spaceBetween\":0,\"loop\":true},\"settingsLg\":{\"autoHeight\":\"1\",\"slidesPerView\":1,\"slidesPerGroup\":1,\"spaceBetween\":0,\"loop\":true},\"hasLg\":true,\"hasLgCounter\":true,\"isFullScreen\":false,\"arrowsFollowMouse\":false,\"lgTitle\":\"none\",\"lgCaption\":\"none\",\"lgThumbnails\":true,\"lgZoomEnabled\":false,\"keyboard\":{\"keyboard\":{\"enabled\":true,\"onlyInViewport\":true}},\"hashNavigation\":false,\"dividers\":false}'><div class=\"swiper-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"swiper-slide wp-block-eedee-block-gutenslide is-position-center-center ed-bg-image\" style=\"--ed-vw:300;--ed-vh:209;\" data-hash=\"\"><div class=\"eedee-background-div bg-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"712\" class=\"wp-image-4644\" src=\"https:\/\/antico.tornabuoniarte.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/d273-copia-1024x712.jpg\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"object-fit: cover; 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object-position: 50% 50%;\"  data-caption=\"d273\" data-title=\"Sacrificio di Codro\" srcset=\"https:\/\/antico.tornabuoniarte.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/d273-1024x660.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/antico.tornabuoniarte.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/d273-300x193.jpg 300w, https:\/\/antico.tornabuoniarte.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/d273-768x495.jpg 768w, https:\/\/antico.tornabuoniarte.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/d273-227x146.jpg 227w, https:\/\/antico.tornabuoniarte.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/d273-50x32.jpg 50w, https:\/\/antico.tornabuoniarte.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/d273-116x75.jpg 116w, https:\/\/antico.tornabuoniarte.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/d273-960x618.jpg 960w, https:\/\/antico.tornabuoniarte.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/d273-745x480.jpg 745w, https:\/\/antico.tornabuoniarte.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/d273.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width:767px) 480px, (max-width:1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><div class=\"eedee-background-div__overlay\" style=\"opacity:1;\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"slide-content\">\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center gutenslider-content-initial has-larger-font-size\"><\/p>\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><button class=\"eedee-gutenslider-nav eedee-gutenslider-prev\"><svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" width=\"24\" height=\"24\"><circle class=\"bg\" cx=\"13\" cy=\"12\" r=\"11\" \/><path fill=\"none\" d=\"M0 0h24v24H0z\"\/><path class=\"arrow\" d=\"M10.828 12l4.95 4.95-1.414 1.414L8 12l6.364-6.364 1.414 1.414z\"\/><\/svg><\/button><button class=\"eedee-gutenslider-nav eedee-gutenslider-next\"><svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" width=\"24\" height=\"24\"><circle class=\"bg\" cx=\"11\" cy=\"12\" r=\"11\" \/><path fill=\"none\" d=\"M0 0h24v24H0z\"\/><path class=\"arrow\" d=\"M13.172 12l-4.95-4.95 1.414-1.414L16 12l-6.364 6.364-1.414-1.414z\"\/><\/svg><\/button><div class=\"eedee-gutenslider-pagination\"><\/div><div class=\"gutenslider-divider-bottom \" style=\"color:#fff;\"><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Bartolomeo Neroni known as \u201cIl Riccio\u201d, circle of<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: center;\">(Siena, 1505\/1510 ca. \u2013 1571)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Sacrifice of Codrus<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">oil on canvas, cm 126&#215;194<\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">As reconstructed by Emilio Negro, who first undertook a careful analysis of the painting, the work \u201cdepicts an episode from ancient history recorded in Factorum et dictorum memorabilium libri IX (5, 6, ext. 1), the anthology composed of brief narratives presented as examples of virtuous or reprehensible conduct drawn from the lives of famous figures\u201d, written by Valerius Maximus. The story concerns Codrun, the Athenian monarch of the 8th century BC who, during a siege, sacrificed his life for the city, which according to a prophecy would not be conquered if the king were killed by the enemy. In order to prevent his opponents \u2013 aware of the prophecy \u2013 rom sparing him, Codrus \u201cabandoned his royal garments and disguised as a common soldier\u201d, met his death in battle, thus saving Athens. The scene is represented on the canvas in three episodes: from left to right we see \u201cthe stoic monarch with sceptre and royal attire, then stripped of everything, and finally lying dead on the ground, killed by his enemies\u201d, culminating in the striking upper-right corner with the rearing horse. From a stylistic point of view, as Negro observes, the work is a faithful quotation of the fresco of the same subject by the Sienese painter Domenico Beccafum between 1529 and 1535 on the walls of the Sala del Concistoro in the Palazzo Pubblico in Siena. Whilst Negro assigns the painting to an anonymous \u201cskilled painter of imaginative pictorial manner\u201d, active within \u201cthat sophisticated pictorial milieu in which inventive painters such as Bartolomeo di David and Bartolomeo Neroni, known as Il Ricco\u201d, both pupils of Beccafumi, \u201cwere working\u201d, a more precise attribution to Riccio has been proposed recently by the scholar Pietro Torriti. Torriti\u2019s conclusion is based on stylistic comparisons with secure works by Neroni, in particular with the faces of certain figures: for example, the figure of Saint Francis in the \u201cCoronation of the Virgin\u201d (Pinacoteca Nazionale, Siena) and \u2013 as suggested here \u2013 also with the face of the Christ Child in the \u201cMadonna and Child with Saint John the Baptist and Saint Catherine of Siena\u201d in the Museo Diocesano of Palazzo Borgia in Pienza. To this may be added Riccio\u2019s own artistic \u201cpractice\u201d, which often led him to reproduce motifs by Domenico Beccafumi, including the latter\u2019s original fresco, probably at close distance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Publications:<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cI volti della storia &#8211; Ritratti di uomini celebri a Roma dall\u2019Impero al Neoclassicismo\u201d, edited by Francesco Petrucci, De Luca Editori d\u2019Arte, Rome, 2004, n. 4, pp. 76-77.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1657,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"portfolio-types":[45],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/antico.tornabuoniarte.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio\/3217"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/antico.tornabuoniarte.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/antico.tornabuoniarte.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/portfolio"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antico.tornabuoniarte.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antico.tornabuoniarte.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3217"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antico.tornabuoniarte.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/antico.tornabuoniarte.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"portfolio-types","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antico.tornabuoniarte.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio-types?post=3217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}