The Death of Absalom (detail)
by SALVIATI, Cecchino del, Fresco
Absalom balances in a strangely hovering way on a root of the oak tree, while his locks blow behind him in the breeze. Salviati evokes with this figure the description in the Bible that characterizes Absalom as the handsomest man in all Israel. Salviati quotes here the classical model of male beauty, the Apollo Belvedere.