The Basilica of Arezzo is especially renowned...
for housing in the chancel [in het koor] a renowned fresco cycle...
The painting began with a commission by the Aretine family Bicci...
who called the painter Bicci di Lorenzo to paint the large cross-vault [kruisgewelf].
In 1452, at Bicci's death, only the four Evangelists had been painted...
as well as the triumphal arch with the Last Judgement...
and two Doctors of the Church.
Piero della Francesca was called in...
to complete the work.
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The theme of the fresco cycle...
is the History of the True Cross...
from the Legenda Aurea by Jacobus de Voragine.
Piero della Francesca did not follow a chronological order...
preferring to concentrate himself in the creation of symmetrical correspondences...
between the various scenes.
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