The Death of Adam

c. 1460 - Fresco, 356 x 747 cm - San Francesco, Arezzo

On the left you can see two young men, that watch in distress the first death of the history of mankind. They are among the noblest and most natural creations in the history of painting.
On the right, old Adam is sitting with his sons, and he sends Seth to Archangel Michael. In the background there is the meeting of Seth with Michael and on the left, in the shade of a big tree, Adam's body is being buried in the presence of his family.
By inserting the three scenes in the same landscape, Piero keeps to the traditional narrative schemes that Masaccio had already used in the Brancacci Chapel.