PIERO DELLA FRANCESCA
(b. 1416, Borgo San Sepolcro, d. 1492, Borgo San Sepolcro)

8. Battle between Heraclius and Chosroes (detail)

1452-66
Fresco
San Francesco, Arezzo

The defeated king, wearing his crown, is kneeling, old, white-haired, wrapped in a mantle that restoration has revealed to bee of very bright blue colour.




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