# No. 10: Pope Pius II Arrives in Ancona [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [PINTURICCHIO]() - Date: 1451-1500 - Technique: Fresco ## Commentary No. 10: Pope Pius II Arrives in Ancona 1502-08 Fresco Piccolomini Library, Duomo, Siena The tenth and last picture in the cycle is set in the Adriatic port of Ancona, a view of which takes up the right side of the background. On July 19, 1464 the ailing pope arrived in Ancona, where he was to await the Venetian fleet that would lead his crusade. he died there a week later. After his death the unpopular crusade was called off. ## Related artworks - [Adoration of the Christ Child \(detail\)]() - [Adoration of the Christ Child]() - [Ceiling decoration \(detail\)]() - [Ceiling decoration \(detail\)]() - [Ceiling decoration]() - [Ceiling decoration]() - [Christ among the Doctors \(detail\)]() - [Christ among the Doctors]() - [Death of St Bernardine]() - [Entrance to the Piccolomini Library]() - [Four Enthroned Sibyls]() - [Homage to Pope Eugenius IV in the Name of Emperor Frederick III]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()