Hence the excitement over the recent cleaning of the frescoes in Santa Croce's main chapel and the news that the restorers' scaffolding will remain in place for most of 2013, allowing visitors to see Agnolo Gaddi's late-14th-century fresco cycle, "The Legend of the True Cross, " from the vantage point of the artist himself.

WSJ: A Heavenly View From On High | Basilica of Santa Croce | Agnolo Gaddi | By Francis X. Rocca