The Church Militant and Triumphant, 1365-1367 (fresco)

The Church Militant and Triumphant (La Chiesa militante e trionfante), by Andrea di Bonaiuto, 1365-1367, 14th Century, fresco Detail. In the upper part of the image one can see a row of young ladies dancing to the rythm of a tambourine, holding each other's hand, while in the lower part there are three saints in Dominican friars' clothes: Saint Dominic, on the left, with a cane guides a pack of piebald dogs, who chase some wolves then tearing them to pieces; on his right, Saints Peter martyr and Thomas confute a group of heretics, who vivaciously gesticulate Andrea di Bonaiuto Church of Santa Maria Novella