The frescos of Montefalco
The anonymous Umbrian and the Histories of Santa Chiara
The factory of
Assisi and the process of
constant embellishment that the
Basilica during the 1300 required and
determined in
Umbria the converting and developing of artists and
maestro that drawn enormous benefit of it. The example of Assisi,
Giotto's presence, of his school and of his students, of the great teachers
Martini and
Lorenzetti, during the 1300 have produced the diffusion and the
development of the Umbrian painting. In the last decades the historians of art
have tried to put in relief such aspect and to underline the connections that
directly linked the activity of the numerous anonymous authors, basing on
Giotto's and Assisi example, were formed disseminating then the territory of
their works. On this background it places the fresco of the
Histories of
Santa Chiara, visible in the
Chapel of Santa Croce, inside the
Santa
Chiara Church. The fresco is considered among the most elevated and
original results in the Umbrian school of the first halves Three hundred, work
of an anonymous certainly formed him in the yard of Assisi, to the shade of
Giotto, the teacher of teachers.
Benozzo Gozzoli, teacher in Montefalco
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Benozzo di Lese, better known as
Benozzo Gozzoli, is born in
Florence in 1420 and dies to
Pistoia in 1497. He
was student and collaborator of
The niche of the Perugino
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The
Museum of St. Francis contains a precious work, dated 1503, produced by the
Perugino during his stay in
Montefalco. It's a grandiose fresco
coverin...
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