Summer's Lease - Piero Della Francesca Trail

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:

    You will trail across the rocks
    and wash them with your salt,
    you will curl between sand-hills
    you will thunder along the cliff
    break retreat get fresh strength
    gather and pour weight upon the beach.
    Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)