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Great Artists of the Italian Renaissance
Lecture Eleven
Piero della Francesca - Legend of the True Cross
The History of the True Cross or The Legend 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.
Its theme, derived from the popular 13th century book on the lives of saints by Jacopo da Varagine, the Golden Legend, is the triumph of the True Cross – the wood from the Garden of Eden that became the Cross on which Christ was crucified.
This work demonstrates Piero’s advanced knowledge of perspective and
colour, his geometric orderliness and skill in pictorial construction.
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Great Artists of the Italian Renaissance 01 - Italy and the Renaissance 
Great Artists of the Italian Renaissance 02 - From Gothic to Renaissance 
Great Artists of the Italian Renaissance 03 - Brunelleschi and Ghiberti in Florence 
Great Artists of the Italian Renaissance 04 - Donatello and Luca della Robbia 
Great Artists of the Italian Renaissance 05 - Masaccio 
Great Artists of the Italian Renaissance 06 - Masaccio - The Brancacci Chapel 
Great Artists of the Italian Renaissance 07 - Fra Angelico and Fra Filippo Lippi 
Great Artists of the Italian Renaissance 08 - Three Specialists 
Great Artists of the Italian Renaissance 09 - Donatello and Padua 
Great Artists of the Italian Renaissance 10 - Piero della Francesca - Individual Works 
Great Artists of the Italian Renaissance 11 - Piero della Francesca - Legend of the True Cross 
Great Artists of the Italian Renaissance 12 - Pageant of Life in Renaissance Florence 
Great Artists of the Italian Renaissance 13 
