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Find out more >. Ticket office contact details: info@arezzointour.it. One of the absolute masterpieces of Italian art, one of the most famous and well-known pictorial cycles throughout the world “The Legend of the True Cross” by Piero della Francesca.
The Basilica of San Francesco is a late Medieval church in Arezzo, Tuscany, Italy, dedicated to St Francis of Assisi. It is especially renowned for housing in the chancel the fresco cycle Legends of the True Cross by Piero della Francesca.
The Legend of the True Cross or The History of the True Cross is a sequence of frescoes painted by Piero della Francesca in the Basilica of San Francesco in Arezzo. It is his largest work, and generally considered one of his finest, and an early Renaissance masterpiece.
Nov 11, 2021 · The fresco cycle is located in the lovely little Tuscan town of Arezzo, in the three story main chapel of the Basilica of San Francesco. Arezzo is only 30 miles south of Florence, so the town is one of the best day trips from Florence. Piero’s frescos are one of the greatest and most beautiful fresco cycles from the early Renaissance.
Frescoes in San Francesco at Arezzo. In 1452, Piero della Francesca was called to Arezzo to replace Bicci di Lorenzo in painting the frescoes of the basilica of San Francesco. The work was finished in 1464. The History of the True Cross cycle of frescoes is generally considered among his masterworks and those of Renaissance painting in general
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Jan 15, 2010 · Damp and age have left big holes in Piero della Francesca’s frescoes in the church of San Francesco in Arezzo Italy. Still, you can use your imagination to fill in the gaps, while enjoying some of the earliest and finest Renaissance masterpieces.
His major work is a series of frescos on the Legend of the True Cross in the choir of San Francesco at Arezzo. The Basilica of San Francesco is a late Medieval church in Arezzo, dedicated to St Francis of Assisi. The Cappella Maggiore houses the fresco cycle by Piero della Francesca depicting the Legend of the True Cross.
