Sassetti Chapel - The Stories of St. Francis

The Stories of St. Francis

The fresco cycle extends over three walls of the chapels, and includes six scenes:

• Renunciation of Worldly Goods
• The Confirmation of the Franciscan Rule
• The Test of Fire
• The Miracle of the Stigmata
• Death of St. Francis
• The Resurrection of the Boy

Ghirlandaio had possibly never seen the Stories of St. Francis in the Basilica di San Francesco in Assisi, but he must certainly have known those in the Bardi Chapel of Santa Croce in Florence, painted by Giotto in the early 14th century.