The Doctors of the Church, between 1290 and 1295

In the four compartments of the vault in the entrance bay the artist portrays the four doctors of church together with their scribes: in the south (at the top of the illustration) st augustine and opposite him, st ambrose; in the east (to the left) st jerome, and in the west st gregory. The architectural structures jut up from below into the gold background. The painter conveys a definite idea of the intellectual work of these saints through the great attention to detail and the perspectival accuracy. Object Type: painting. Date: between 1290 and 1295. Medium: fresco. Collection: Upper Basilica of San Francesco d'Assisi.