Italian Renaissance Fresco of a Harbor Market with Merchant Galleys

A wide Italian Renaissance fresco of a busy harbor market on a sunny morning, painted on weathered lime plaster. Two large wooden merchant galleys with loosely hanging ochre sails are moored at a stone quay on the left, with a few smaller boats on the calm turquoise lagoon behind them. In the foreground, traders in red, green, and blue robes and soft caps unload wooden barrels, bolts of colorful cloth, and wicker baskets of bright oranges, while a fishmonger arranges rows of silver fish on a woo...