Conference by Benedetta Fanciulli

On Wednesday, May 14, the conference “Piero della Francesca” by Benedetta Fanciulli will be held, organized by the Friends of the Belluno Museum Association, at the Bianchi Hall.

The “rarefied and monumental” space of Piero’s painting, the impassive rationality of the figures that appear within it, touches one of the highest peaks of early Renaissance painting and constitutes an essential lesson for its subsequent developments.
The surviving fragments of his Augustine Polyptych, painted for the Church of the Augustinians in Borgo San Sepolcro, coming from various museums and exhibited for the first time after years at the Poldi Pezzoli Museum in Milan in 2024, have garnered media attention as well as admiration from thousands of visitors.
But the richest and most significant pictorial treasure of Piero della Francesca is the frescoes of “The Legend of the True Cross” in the Bacci Chapel in the Basilica of San Francesco in Arezzo, frescoes in which, starting from the origin tree of the cross, he gives life not only to the most significant episodes of its genesis but also to the main historical events related to the role of the cross itself up to the year 628, when the “wood” that was stolen was returned to Jerusalem.

Free entrance until seats are filled.