The Basilica of Saint Francis of Assisi is the mother church of the Roman Catholic Order of Friars Minor Conventual in Assisi, a town in the Umbria region in central Italy, where Saint Francis was bor
The Lower and Upper basilicas and the portico, as seen from the Lower Plaza of Saint Francis.
Basilica, as seen from the valley below.
Rear viewed from the north-west
A view of the collapsed celling vault after the Earthquake
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Giotto di Bondone, known mononymously as Giotto, was an Italian painter and architect from Florence during the Late Middle Ages. He worked during the Gothic and Proto-Renaissance period. Giotto's cont
Basilica of Saint Francis of Assisi
…Upper and Lower Churches are decorated with frescoes by numerous late medieval painters from the Roman and Tuscan schools, and include works by Cimabue, Giotto, Simone Martini, Pietro Lorenzetti, and possibly Pietro Cavallini. The range and quality of the works give the basilica a unique importance in demonstrating…
Portrait by Andrea di Bonaiuto, c. 1366
One of the Legend of St. Francis frescoes at Assisi, the authorship of which is disputed
Drawing of Giotto's lost mosaic Navicella, made about 1420 and once owned by Vasari
Full-size copy in oils of Giotto's lost mosaic Navicella, made in 1628