Word: bacci
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...Once Piero had returned from his travels to Arezzo, the wealthy Bacci family commissioned what is widely considered his masterpiece in the city's Basilica of San Francesco. The Legend of the True Cross, a complex yet perfectly proportioned fresco cycle of 12 panels, uses contemporary models and references to tell the ancient legend of how the Emperor Constantine's mother discovered Christ's cross during a pilgimage to the Holy Land. The modest "skyline" of 15th century Arezzo, for example, served as his model for biblical Jerusalem...