Fresco painting Arezzo Francesco Church Piero della Francesca The Legend of the True Cross
The work on a fresco cycle in the Cappella Maggiore of the church San Francesco had already begun in 1452 when when Piero della Francesca visited the city. The Florentine painter Bicci di Lorenzo was working in the chapel, he died in 1452, leaving the decoration of the chapel barely begun. Piero probably began to work right after Bicci's death, covering in a few years the walls of the Gothic chapel with the most modern and most advanced - in terms of perspective - frescoes that the Italian 15th century could have created.
Size: 5315px × 3451px
Photo credit: © Peter Horree / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
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