The Renaissance · 1 June 1432
The Sweet Trap
A painter drowns a cavalry battle in perspective and hangs it in a bedroom
On the first of June, 1432, near a tower called San Romano, a Florentine army beat a Sienese one after eight hours in the heat, and the commander who took the credit was a mercenary named Niccolò da Tolentino.
The full story hangs in the app's archive.