Piero della Francesca, Le Storie della Vera Croce, Morte di Adamo (detail of a young women), Basilica di San Francesco, Arezzo

The cycle of frescoes The Stories of the True Cross was painted by Piero della Francesca, between 1452 and 1466.
Piero paid no attention to the chronological trend, favoring a purely aesthetic-formal criterion, which created an effect of symmetry, without thereby preventing philosophico-theological responses between scenes facing each other.

The Death of Adam in the lunette of the right wall was probably the first to be painted by Piero. According to the legend, the tree from which the cross was made was planted, at the urging of angels, at the burial of Adam by his son, using a branch or a seed from the apple tree of the garden of Eden.
The fresco occupies the entire lunette of the right wall and tells of how Adam, now elderly, and dying (right-wing group), assisted by the elderly Eva and other descendants.

A youthful couple also appears in the scene: a nude man seen from the back, leaning on his staff, and a young woman in a hair shirt, standing behind Adam and turned frontally toward the viewer.
A hairshirt or cilice, also known as a sackcloth,[1] was originally a garment or undergarment made of coarse cloth or animal hair worn close to the skin. It is used by members of various Christian traditions.
Sackcloth, usually made of black goat hair, was used by the Israelites and their neighbors in times of mourning or social protest [4].