15thc perception on swallowtail merlons?

[Pierre Dumont Himself]

Looks good. There are four sets of swallowtail merlons in the pictorial cycle:

S.Giovanni Evangelista immerso nell'olio bollente [John the Apostle immersed in burning oil]

Noli me tangere [Latin of "Do not touch me" - allegedly said by Jesus to Mary Magdalene after the Resurrection]

Crocifissione di Sant'Andrea e il prefetto Aegeas strangolato dal demonio [Crucifixion of St. Andrew and Prefect Aegeas Strangled by the Devil - as divine punishment]

Crocifissione con due Santi domenicani.

Pietro Cavallini [1240 – circa 1330] was a versatile painter trained in the Byzantine school who, later in his life, helped pioneer a new style of naturalism marked by a focus on architectural elements and made famous around the same time by a young Giotto [1267-1337]. Noli me tangere is a much rarer subject in Gothic painting than the martyrdoms or Crucifixion, though it becomes relatively common in the Renaissance. This particular cycle has contemporary parallels in Giotto's own works:


Stories of St. John the Baptist and of St. John the Evangelist, c. 1310-1311 with a detail of the Resurrection of Drusiana (right wall).
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Giotto - Resurrezione e Noli me tangere, 1303-1305 circa, Cappella degli Scrovegni, Padova.