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.

Reproductions of the frescoes in the Upper Church are listed in the Web Gallery of Art in sections of Cimabue, Giotto, Jacopo Torriti, Master of Saint Cecilia, Master of the Isaac Stories, and Unknown Italian Masters.

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	View of the interior towards the altar 1290s Fresco Upper Church, San Francesco, Assisi
	Frescoes in the fourth bay of the nave 1290s Fresco Upper Church, San Francesco, Assisi
	Deësis vault 1290s Fresco Upper Church, San Francesco, Assisi
	Deësis vault 1290s Fresco Upper Church, San Francesco, Assisi
	Deësis vault 1290s Fresco Upper Church, San Francesco, Assisi
	Deësis vault (detail) 1290s Fresco Upper Church, San Francesco, Assisi
	Scenes from the Old Testament: Creation of the World 1290s Fresco Upper Church, San Francesco, Assisi
	Scenes from the Old Testament: The Creation of Eve c. 1290 Fresco Upper Church, San Francesco, Assisi
	Scenes from the Old Testament: The Creation of Eve c. 1290 Fresco Upper Church, San Francesco, Assisi
	Scenes from the Old Testament: The Construction of the Ark c. 1290 Fresco Upper Church, San Francesco, Assisi
	Scenes from the Old Testament: The Construction of the Ark c. 1290 Fresco Upper Church, San Francesco, Assisi
	Scenes from the Old Testament: The Sacrifice of Isaac c. 1290 Fresco Upper Church, San Francesco, Assisi
	The Marriage at Cana 1290s Fresco Upper Church, San Francesco, Assisi
	Apse calotte 1288-91 Mosaic San Giovanni Laterano, Rome