# Vault with the Church Fathers [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [MASTER of the Isaac Stories]() - Date: 1251-1300 - Technique: Fresco ## Commentary Vault with the Church Fathers c. 1295 Fresco Upper Church, San Francesco, Assisi The attribution of the fresco is debated. Originally Vasari attributed it to Cimabue, however, this attribution was rejected at the end of the 18th century. Since then some critics attributed it to Pietro Cavallini or one of his followers; Jacopo Torriti or a follower, the young Giotto or a follower. 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. The picture shows the vault before the 1997 earthquake. ## Related artworks - [Scenes from the Old Testament: Isaac Blessing Jacob \(detail\)]() - [Scenes from the Old Testament: Isaac Blessing Jacob]() - [Scenes from the Old Testament: Isaac Rejecting Esau \(detail\)]() - [Scenes from the Old Testament: Isaac Rejecting Esau \(detail\)]() - [Scenes from the Old Testament: Isaac Rejecting Esau \(detail\)]() - [Scenes from the Old Testament: Isaac Rejecting Esau]() - [The Doctors of the Church \(detail of St Jerome\)]() - [The Doctors of the Church \(detail\)]() - [Vault with the Church Fathers]() - [Vault with the Church Fathers]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()