Piero Della Francesca Trail
The Piero della Francesca Trail is an excursion which traces the works created by Piero della Francesca in Arezzo, Monterchi, San Sepolcro (his birthplace) and Urbino. To his contemporaries, Piero was admired as a mathematician and geometer as well as a painter, and today his paintings are celebrated for their serene humanism and use of geometric forms.
Summer's Lease has made famous the Piero Della Francesca Trail, which sees Molly set out from the Chianti District near Siena and travel to view the following paintings of Piero Della Francesca:
1. The Legend of the True Cross, Basilica di San Francesco d'Assisi, Arezzo
2. The Pregnant Madonna, Museo della Madonna del Parto, Monterchi
3. The Resurrection, Museo Civico, San Sepolcro
4. The Flagellation, Galleria Nazionale delle Marche, Palazzo Ducale, Urbino
Molly and her elusive landlord Buck Kettering share a love of the art work of Piero Della Francesca. The Piero Della Francesca Trail ultimately leads Molly to Buck, who for reasons of his own does not want to be found.
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Famous quotes containing the word trail:
“Perhaps of all our untamed quadrupeds, the fox has obtained the widest and most familiar reputation.... His recent tracks still give variety to a winter’s walk. I tread in the steps of the fox that has gone before me by some hours, or which perhaps I have started, with such a tip-toe of expectation as if I were on the trail of the Spirit itself which resides in the wood, and expected soon to catch it in its lair.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)