Lorredan wrote:Darn it- the Tapestry replica by Jacquet d'Arras of the fresco was at the Palazzo Pubblico and I gave it only a cursory look. I cannot find a picture of it on the web. I guess I would see what the missing bit is from the replica- it was done approximately 80 years later than the fresco- and I think was hung outside on the walls during the Pallio.
(mutter mutter cuss and swear)
~Lorredan~
Thanks for that. It sent me on a chase for the tapestry too.
But it looks like what you saw might be a recreation, or a *very* recent rediscovery. According to Elizabeth Cleland, writing in Carol M. Richardson, ed., "Locating Renaissance Art: Renaissance Art Rediscovered" (Yale U. Press, 2007) p. 120, Jacquet d'Arras' tapestries were commissioned in 1447, but that "Unfortunately, the tapestries were plundered by Napoleonic troops in 1809 and their fate remains unknown."
I hope this link works for you -
http://books.google.com/books?id=ac_Bbk ... lt#PPA5,M1
If not, google "jacquet" and "siena" - it was the first link that came up for me.
More generally, if the fresco were in fact defaced on account of Bernardino's preaching, I wouldn't expect the tapestry to show the missing parts, since Bernardino died in 1444, and his major preaching activities stopped in the late '20s. So it was probably already damaged by the time Jacquet (Giachetto for the Italians) wove his version.
Ross