Detail of frescoes in cloister by High Renaissance painter Il Sodoma (Giovanni Antonio Bazzi) painted between 1505 and 1508, of the life of St. Benedict (San Benedetto), showing St. Benedict greeting to his order Placide and Maure, a page, Monte Oliveto Maggiore Abbey, Chiusure, Tuscany, Italy, Europe

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