Arezzo, 2017

We decamped November 5th and drove to Arezzo, a town and art history center we last visited in 2011. Except for the new things we saw--Vasari's house, the Santa Maria della Pieve church--I can hardly improve on the pix I (sometimes clandestinely) took in 2011. They are at http://roadeveron.blogspot.com/2011/05/arezzo-art.html and at http://roadeveron.blogspot.com/2011/05/arezzo.html, and warrant close attention. (There will be a quiz later). Just as it seemed in 2011, Arezzo is a bit off the larger tourist route; pretty much Italian tourists and those there for the weekly antiques market. It is nonetheless a beautiful Medieval/Renaissance old town, with much art and art history.

A rainy Sunday morning rain somewhat slowed the antiques market

Vicki buying Girl Scout cookies; we headed first to Vasari's
house (next post) before going to the Chiesa di San Francesco
and Piero della Francesca's Legend of the True Cross

Looking into Francesca's masterpiece; I think my pix from
2011 are good enough, despite the "NO FOTOS!" policy; on
this day one could just linger and take pix at leisure; besides,
the Legend of the True Cross doesn't lend itself to a blow-by-
blow account; or any coherent or credible rendering at all; but
it's beautiful

There were so many flags available that day...why couldn't
he have chosen the white goose ("in hoc signes...")?

Teething Jesus; the14th century church  is
covered in old frescoes, many still recognizable

Another view of the Francesca frescoes, with an
ancient Franciscan crucifix

Less well known bit of the Legend story

Covered offering plates

City Hall

Inside the cathedral, with the Divine Illumination Machine
(DIM) on (see 2011 post)

Petrarch's house (now the public library, as I recall)

Live or Memorex?

Renaissance style; gotta have a mural to adorn your covered
staircase

The 12th century Chiesa Santa Maria della Pieve; Vasari called
it the church with 100 holes

In its crypt

Adoration bas-relief in nave

Another bas-relief

Outside

 

Later, at the Medieval Museum, Gerini's
Man of Sorrows (note the guy sticking his
tongue out at J)

And, lastly, a huge Vasari Banquet, maybe 30 feet wide, but,
alas, no title I could find