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CIAO ADRIANO
Adriano and son James travel the Piero della Francesca Trail through Sansepolcro, Monterchi and Arezzo including "The Best Picture in the World" in Sansepolcro
November 2007
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A beautifully produced little themed Tuscan travel guide, including an essay by Aldous Huxley who travelled over the mountains from Urbino to Sansepolcro in a bus in the 1920s to see "the best picture in the world"
Link to Aldous Huxley's essay "The Best Picture in the World"
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SANSEPOLCRO
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Piero della Francesca stands in a public garden across the road from his house in Sansepolcro
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Madonna della Misericordia (Sansepolcro - Pinacotecca Communale) A large (say 2m+ high) early Piero altarpiece
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The Resurrection (Sansepolcro - Pinacotecca Comunale)
Regarded as one of the outstanding paintings of the Renaissance, in particular in the use of distorted perspective to achieve dramatic effect. The guard with the rippling muscles is Piero himself! The town was so proud of this work that there is a large viewing window on the opposite (street) wall with a viewing balcony.
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San Ludovico da Tolosa (painted c1460)
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The Piazza Torre di Berta, though the Torre itself was sadly a victim of WWII
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MONTERCHI
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Pregnant Madonna (Madonna del Parto) (Monterchi)
A large fresco removed from the Monterchi church where it was painted and now exhibited in a converted old school hall in Monterchi, which has been purpose altered for this.
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Monterchi setting, November 2007 - next stop the snow covered foothills of the Apennine Mountains
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AREZZO
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Piazza Grande, Arezzo - set for jousting contests and also the film "Life is Beautiful"
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Arezzo - Detail ("The Exaltation of the True Cross") from the monumental fresco cycle in the Basilica di San Francesco by Piero della Francesca depicting scenes from the Legend of the True Cross
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Backing onto the Piazza Grande is the elegant Romanesque church oif Santa Maria, with recycled column facade and a beautiful altarpiece by Piero Lorenzetti.
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If you have a couple of days available (which we did not), the "full trail" starts in Florence and ends at the Palazzo Ducale in Urbino (right).
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FLORENCE
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URBINO
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The small but iconically famous portrait of Federigo, Duke of Urbino (1422 - 1482 (60)), in Room 7 of the Uffizi Gallery, Florence.
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The sublime Madonna di Senigallia, Galleria Nazionale delle Marche, Palazzo Ducale, Urbino.
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MAP OF TUSCANY
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Sansepolcro and Arezzo are in West Tuscany. Monterchi (not shown) is near Sansepolcro.
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