This fresco is one of the four main scenes in the Chapter House of San Francesco, Siena. The scenes were, as described in 1855: the Crucifixion and the Resurrected Christ by Pietro Lorenzetti on the end wall, and Pope Boniface VIII receiving St Louis of Toulouse as a Novice and the Martyrdom of the Franciscans by Ambrogio Lorenzetti.
Most of the decoration were destroyed, this part was recovered and transferred to a chapel of the church in 1857. However, the painting is damaged and the colours survived only at the upper part.
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