Giovanni Bellini, St. Francis in Ecstasy, 1480 - this work Resembles a stigmatization (receiving the wounds of the crucified body of Christ on the hands, feet & side), bur this scene is in fact is a meditation on Francis identification with creation. Francis stretches out his arms and looks skyward, where, in traditional Franciscan stigmatisations, one would expect to find a seraph. Natural beauty and light are sufficient to describe the divine.
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