Flat Boomer at San Francesco Church in Arezzo

Flat Boomer visited the San Francesco Church today in Arezzo. There are some awesome paintings inside the church. Flat Boomer was a little upset that we were not able to take pictures inside the church, so he wanted to buy a book with pictures of all the paintings in the church. 

The man who painted the walls inside the San Francesco Church was Piero della Francesca. He was born in the early 1400s in Monterchi, Italy. He called the paintings on the walls, frescoes. A fresco is a method of painting using dry powder pigments in pure water which makes the painting or fresco a permanent part of the wall. Can you name some other famous painters in history? To read more about frescoes click on the link below.

http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/219703/fresco-painting 

Pierro della Francesca painted religious frescoes on the walls of the San Francesco Church. In the church he painted the story "The True Legend of the Cross." This story is about what happened to the actual wood of the cross in which Christ was crucified. The story starts with a man named Adam on his deathbed who sends his son Seth to see Archangel Michael who gives him some seedlings from the tree to be placed in his father's mouth at the moment of his death. The tree grows at Adam's grave and is chopped down by King Solomon to make a bridge. The Queen of Sheba on her way to see King Solomon was about the cross the bridge and when by a miracle she learns the Savior will be crucified on that wood. Eventually the wood is removed and buried. Then a man named Judas is forced to reveal where the wood is buried. For more information about this story click on the link below. 

http://www.wga.hu/html_m/p/piero/2/

Piero della Francesca is well known here in Arezzo, Italy. There is a restaurant next to the church named after him. Piero della Francesca is also famous for painting the Resurrection. The fresco shows Christ rising from the dead on the third day after his death. This fresco is a type of art from the Renaissance period. What are other famous Renaissance painters? To read more about the Resurrection fresco, click the link below. 

http://smarthistory.khanacademy.org/piero-della-francescaa-resurrection.html