Judas and the Franciscans: perfidy pictured in Lorenzetti's Passion cycle at Assisi.(Pietro Lorenzetti, Italy)(Critical Essay) From: The Art Bulletin | Date: March 1, 2004| Author: | COPYRIGHT 2004 College Art Association. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information) Copyright information

In the south transept of the lower church of S. Francesco, Assisi, in the early fourteenth century, Pietro Lorenzetti painted a powerful vision of death. (1) Alone, beneath an arch, a man hangs by the neck from a wooden beam. His straggling hair sticks to his face, the tendons bulge in his dislocated neck, and a tear in his long tunic reveals a horrible mutilation: his intestines are spilling out through his burst belly. The name [I]SCARIOT is inscribed beside the corpse. This is the Death of Judas (Fig. 1).

Its setting is the Passion cycle, and the grisly subject matter ...

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