Nicholas Lochoff (d.1948) after

Andrea del Castagno (Florentine, 1417/19-1457)
QUEEN ESTHER

Original (after 1448) in the Uffizi, Florence Fresco

This is one of a series of frescoes of famous people from the Carduccl Villa at Legnaia, near Florence. Those portrayed were intended to inspire the viewer in various endeavors, and allude to certain virtues. Represented with Esther were two other famous women, three poets, three contemporary warriors, Adam and Eve, and the Virgin and Child. They were painted within an illusionistic continuous porch, from which some figures were made to look as if they extended into the onlooker's "space

Text by Robert Gerwing.
Copyright 2004.