San Francesco e quattro miracoli post mortem (Assisi)

This panel by Giunta Pisano depicting St. Francis and four posthumous miracles is one of the earliest narrative cycles devoted to the saint, created for the Basilica of San Francesco in Assisi itself. Giunta Pisano was the first Italian painter to sign his crucifixes and among the first to move beyond the rigid Byzantine formula toward greater emotional expressiveness. Created shortly after Francis's canonization, this panel helped establish the visual hagiographic tradition that Giotto would later transform in his famous fresco cycle.

Executed in egg tempera and gold leaf on panel, the work combines a hieratic central figure of the saint with smaller narrative scenes arranged in flanking registers, using the compartmentalized dossal format typical of early Italian Gothic devotional panels.