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March is the month of the resumption of agricultural activities, and its most widespread image in the artistic field refers to the tying or pruning of vines. Winter is drawing to a close, and work in the fields has resumed: at the end of the day, the farmer, seated on a stool, is intent on cleaning his left foot with a suitable tool. The depiction of March is accompanied by the zodiac sign of Pisces, the twelfth and final sign of the zodiac. The Christian year begins at the e

On the left, approximately halfway down the central nave of the Cathedral of Otranto , the famous mosaic floor (1163-1165) depicts for the first time in Southern Italy the biblical scene of the construction of the Tower of Babel (Genesis, 11, 19). C.A. Willemsen, who was the first and best to study it, was able to identify a significant, but not the only, Jewish influence. He writes that the Tower scene is undoubtedly drawn from a medieval Jewish tale that speaks of two ladde