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St. Constantine's Victory over Maxentius (detail): Piero della Francesca, 1452-1466, fresco, San Francesco, Arezzo
One can almost imagine the artist lost in thought on the bridges over the Arezzo...-- Piero Bianconi, Piero della Francesca
That on the surface of the water
one should see the sky
and on the surface of the wall
one should see the sky
reflected on the surface of the water
one should see the sky
and on the surface of the wall
one should see the sky
reflected on the surface of the water
St. Constantine's Victory over Maxentius (detail): Piero della Francesca, 1452-1466, fresco, San Francesco, Arezzo
(A recollection of Arezzo, 1964: to come out of the roaring midday sun into the cool quiet church and stare up through the scaffolding at what easily might have been a kind of heaven, slipped into the receding foreground vision at the center of The Victory of Constantine over Maxentius...)