Pinterest is a wonderful thing.  This last week I ran across a image from an Italian fresco of a snowball fight, and I fell in love with it.  Not only is the subject whimsical, but the dresses the women are wearing are gorgeous!

Those of you who know me know that I am a member of the Society for Creative Anachronism, and my persona is late 14th century Savonese/Italian.  That green dress will be mine… just as soon as I can afford the velvet to make it.  *sigh*

Not being the sort to be content with having found such a beautiful image, I went on to do ree-serch (if you don’t watch Jackie Chan Adventures, you won’t get that spelling).  Anyway, I discovered that this image is only a small part of a much larger panel of a fresco found in Trento, Italy at Castello del Buonconsiglio.  Not only is the panel much larger, but it is only one of eleven panels in the Ciclo dei Mesi (Cycle of the Seasons.) (The twelfth (March) was on a mobile wooden panel and was lost in a fire.)

The panels are arranged around the Tower of the Eagle and show scenes from everyday Italian life.  They are by an unknown Czech master, probably Wenceslas c. 1400.  They’re Brueghel for my reenactment period!  I raided the Italian Wikipedia Commons for the following images.  I would love to have higher resolution photos.  Somewhere there is a group that has done a virtual walk through of the tower.  I found their paper in an academic journal, but I can’t find the actual walk through.