(1) Sitting under a rose and clematis arbour in one area, you see through a lunette in a pyracantha hedge to a pond, encircled by lavender, heleniums, hemerocallis, gaillardias and calamintha.(2) Iacobini aptly draws a comparison between the representation of this church and that in the lunette mosaic of the southwest vestibule of Hagia Sophia.(3) Giani wrote in his Preface that the Servite lunette paintings should serve as an example for narrative painting in general, and focused on their didactic function and their role as a visual stimulus to piety.(4) One typically Tuscan form of revival with roots in the renaissance was the cloister lunette fresco cycle.(5) The best known of Poccetti's lunette fresco cycles was also one of the last commissions he undertook before his death in 1612.(6) Castlepark House has a central pedimented two storey breakfront, made all the more distinctive by the Venetian window on the first floor which has a small lunette window, almost like a halo, above it.(7) Unfortunately, the removal of this section of the picture was accompanied by the destruction of a frescoed lunette , depicting God the Father with Seraphim, which had originally surmounted the main field.(8) The document is dated 16 August 1531, and there is a further commission for a lunette from the two artists dared 11 January 1543.(9) Now that a lunette 's sinopia with faint sheep has come to light, the argument becomes stronger for the relief filling the chapel's remaining iconographical lacuna.(10) In the late cinquecento, Florentine patrons seized upon the cloister lunette fresco cycle as an ideal format for reformist didactic painting.(11) The ricordanze credit the Prior, Lorenzo Picciuoli, with the idea of painting the lunette fresco cycle with ‘the origin and progress of our [Servite] Order’ - a typical post-Tridentine theme in Tuscany.(12) Mariette states that the fresco was in the lunette over the stained-glass, or leaded-glass, window above the altar.(13) His work includes a fresco, Autumn, in a lunette of the Royal Academy's restaurant, and he also painted landscapes, interiors, and historical scenes, but he is best known as a portraitist.(14) According to Mariette, the fresco in the lunette on the wall opposite (on the right in the chapel) depicted Mary Magdalen in the desert.(15) The lunette to the left in the chapel, located above the marble sarcophagus with an effigy carved in the likeness of the deceased courtesan reclining on top, shows Mary Magdalen Borne Up by Angels.(16) The frescoes by Giulio Romano and Penni in the lunettes and vault were retained and the altarpiece remained in place.
