"The Dream of Constantine", detail of "The Stories of the True Cross, fresco by Piero della Francesca (1452-1466). Detail.. The night before the decisive battle with Maxentius, an angel brings Constantine - who is surrounded by guards and asleep and dreaming in his military tent - a tiny cross and pronounces the words 'In hoc signo vinces' (with this sign you will win).
"The Dream of Constantine", detail of "The Stories of the True Cross, fresco by Piero della Francesca (1452-1466). Detail.. The night before the decisive battle with Maxentius, an angel brings Constantine - who is surrounded by guards and asleep and dreaming in his military tent - a tiny cross and pronounces the words 'In hoc signo vinces' (with this sign you will win).