Giotto creates the famous cycle of frescoes dedicated to the saint in the Bardi Chapel. The scenes show the maximum evolution of Giotto’s pictorial language, with solid figures, intuitive perspective and a deep emotional expression. The innovative use of light and space makes them particularly realistic and dramatic. In the death of Saint Francis the saint is surrounded by his brothers as he leaves earthly life. This work is one of the greatest masterpieces of Italian Gothic painting and a fundamental point of reference for the development of Renaissance art.