On the curved wall below the vaults Pietro created the huge Crucifixion, the most ambitious of all pre-Renaissance crowd scenes; it comprises some fifty figures, each strongly differentiated. Under the Crucifixion, at eye level, he painted a 'sacred conversation', Mary and Child between Sts Francis and John the Evangelist.

Suggested listening (streaming mp3, 22 minutes): Guillaume Dufay: Hymns

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	Crucifixion c. 1320 Fresco Lower Church, San Francesco, Assisi	1101*900 True Color 180 Kb
	Crucifixion (detail) 1320 Fresco Lower Church, San Francesco, Assisi	660*932 True Color 152 Kb
	Crucifixion (detail) 1320 Fresco Lower Church, San Francesco, Assisi	690*894 True Color 135 Kb
	Crucifixion (detail) c. 1320 Fresco Lower Church, San Francesco, Assisi	850*1163 True Color 184 Kb
	Crucifixion (detail) 1320 Fresco Lower Church, San Francesco, Assisi	1006*640 True Color 182 Kb
	Crucifixion (detail) c. 1320 Fresco Lower Church, San Francesco, Assisi	850*1051 True Color 153 Kb
	Madonna with St Francis and St John the Evangelist c. 1320 Fresco Lower Church, San Francesco, Assisi	1188*800 True Color 173 Kb