Gentile da Fabriano
Frescoes in the Trinci Palace - Romulus and Remus Loggia, before 1405

Horse Soldiers, detail from fresco cycle Stories of Romulus and Remus, by Gentile da Fabriano (ca 1370-1427) and collaborators

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Fresco
From Trinci Palace, Foligno, Italy
1410-1411

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Fresco (partly unfinished in the sinopia stage) by Gentile da Fabriano, Loggia (the Founding of Rome); Trinci Palace, Foligno, Italy

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All frescoes in the palace, except those of the chapel, were commissioned by Ugolino III Trinci, who died in 1415. Their execution started probably in 1407. The concept of these fresco cycles probably came from Francesco Federico Frezzi, the bishop of Foligno and author of the Quadriregio, a poem of the four kingdoms Love, Satan, the Vices, and the Virtues. Some of these frescoes were painted between 1411 and 1412 by Gentile da Fabriano, with the assistance of Jacopo Bellini. The designs were by Gentile da Fabriano, but their painting was almost completely done by pupils. The authorship of the frescoes was attested by Lodovico Coltellini, a scholar who saw in 1780 two receipts to Ugolino Trinci by Gentile da Fabriano for painting the halls. Some of the frescoes in the palace depicting secular subjects are attributed to Giovanni di Corraduccio
(Фрески, которые нас интересуют, с группой рыцарей, находятся в Romulus and Remus Loggia)
The loggia is decorated with frescoes describing the legend of the "Founding of Rome". These frescoes are already mentioned in documents dating from 1405. They depict The Vestal Virgin Rhea Silvia who gives in to the love of the god Mars, birth of Romulus and Remus, Faustulus brings the twins to his wife Acca Larentia, Rhea Silvia, the siege of Alba Longa, the twins and the king Amulius. Each episode is explained below by verses in Italian. Through these frescoes, the Trinci family tried to provide an acceptable lineage of their ancestors to the founders of Rome. The painter of these frescoes is anonymous. His style is certainly different from the styles of the frescoes in the other rooms of the palace. He paints with almost monochromatic colors and has a great sense of anecdotal narrative. These reveal a certain similarity with the Master of the Life of St. Benedict (partly in the Uffizi, Florence, and part in the Museo Poldi Pezzoli, Milan).

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Frescoes of the birth of Rome (ca. 1411)
As mentioned above, these frescoes seem to have been the work of Gentile da Fabriano and his workshop. Some of them survive only as sinopie.

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PALAZZO TRINCI (Foligno, PG)
Gentile da Fabriano e collaboratori, 1411-1412 c.
La Loggia con le "Storie di Romolo e Remo"; episodio "Rea Silvia condannata a morte"

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Stories of Romulus and Remus, execution of Rhea Silvia, soldiers on horseback, fresco, 14th-15th century Trinci palace, 1389-1407, Umbria, Italy

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Loggia of Romulus and Remus in the Trinci Palace in Foligno, Frescoes by Gentile da Fabriano. Palazzo Trinci was the residence of the Trinci family who ruled over the city from 1305 to 1439, It was completed in 1411, it contains a cycle of frescoes attributed to the painter Gentile da Fabriano