Cassone with painted front panel depicting the Conquest of Trebizond

Cassone with painted front panel depicting the Conquest of Trebizond

Attributed to the workshop of Apolloni di Giovanni di Tomaso, Italian, said to come from the Palazzo Strozzi. The front panel depicts a battle at the city of Trebizond, Constantinople is at the upper left. The battle shows the fall of Trebizond to the Ottomans in 1471, but, strangely, the ruler beneath the canopy is identified as Tamerlane (Timur) in a small, faint inscription to the right of his head, who defeated the Ottoman sultan in 1402, and died three years later in 1405. This bizarre anachronism has not been explained.

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