Worshiping of Chosroës, Dream of Emperor Heraclius, and Heraclius's Combat with Chosroës's Son

1385 · Chancel Chapel, Santa Croce, Florence

religious

In the third image field from the top of the north wall, three scenes are joined. At the left Chosros allows himself to be worshiped by his people in a temple he had erected. In the centre of the picture is the vision of Emperor Heraclius.

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Worshiping of Chosroës, Dream of Emperor Heraclius, and Heraclius's Combat with Chosroës's Son

About the Artist

Agnolo Gaddi

1350 – 1396

Florentine painter, the son of Taddeo Gaddi. He continued the Giotto tradition but modified it still further in the direction of decorative elegance. He is particularly notable for his cool pale colours, which infiuenced the refined late Gothic art of artists of the next generation such as Lorenzo Monaco. Agnolo's works include frescos on The Story of the Cross in the chancel of Sta Croce (after 1374) and on The Story of the Virgin and her Girdle in the Chapel of the Holy Girdle in Prato Cathedral (1392-5). Many panel paintings also are attributed to Agnolo.

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