The frescoes above the gallery behind the crossing in the nave of the Upper Church show the unmistakable style of Jacopo Torriti who was chosen by Pope Nicholas IV for the mosaic decoration of the apsidal tribunes of San Giovanni Laterano (1291) and Santa Maria Maggiore (1296) in Rome. The frescoes in Assisi are earlier than the Roman mosaics, as is clear from their more old-fashioned approach to the representation of space.

The decorative program in the nave consists of the fresco cycle Legend of St Francis painted by Giotto beneath the gallery on the lower part of the wall, and episodes from the Old Testament above the gallery in the clerestory on the north wall, and episodes from the New Testament on the south wall. Some of these scenes as well as the vault with the Deesis were painted by Torriti and his assistants.

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	View of the interior towards the altar 1290s Fresco Upper Church, San Francesco, Assisi	900*1209 True Color 169 Kb
	Frescoes in the fourth bay of the nave 1290s Fresco Upper Church, San Francesco, Assisi	900*1050 True Color 183 Kb
	Deesis 1290s Fresco Upper Church, San Francesco, Assisi	900*986 True Color 301 Kb
	Deesis 1290s Fresco Upper Church, San Francesco, Assisi	742*905 True Color 172 Kb
	Creation of the World 1290s Fresco Upper Church, San Francesco, Assisi	901*1005 True Color 192 Kb
	The Creation of Eve 1290s Fresco Upper Church, San Francesco, Assisi	850*1051 True Color 169 Kb
	The Construction of the Ark 1290s Fresco Upper Church, San Francesco, Assisi	1115*780 True Color 165 Kb
	The Marriage at Cana 1290s Fresco Upper Church, San Francesco, Assisi	850*973 True Color 147 Kb
	Apse calotte 1288-91 Mosaic San Giovanni Laterano, Rome	1200*782 True Color 233 Kb