Saint Louis of Toulouse (Piero della Francesca)

Saint Louis of Toulouse
Year	1460
Dimensions	123 cm (48 in) × 90 cm (35 in)
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Saint Louis of Toulouse is a fresco fragment of 1460 by

The poor state of conservation has led to attribution difficulties in the past, with Roberto Longhi attributing the work to Lorentino d'Arezzo rather than to Piero della Francesca, but a 1998 restoration has revealed the use of volume and colour and reinforced its status as an autograph work by Piero.^[2] It follows the usual iconography of Louis of Toulouse, showing him as a young man in a Franciscan habit under episcopal vestments, similar to Donatello's statue of the saint in Florence. The vestments' edge is decorated with figures of saints in a similar way to the artist's Saint Augustine in Lisbon.^[3]

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