In this study of Giovanni Bellini's great masterpiece, the so-called
Frick St. Francis, John V. Fleming moves beyond earlier discussions of
the work to offer a detailed and comprehensive iconographic analysis,
with the further intention of exploring the nature of the medieval
Franciscan imagination and showing how fundamental Franciscan ideas
ideas often by nature more poetic and pictorial than discursive found
powerful expression in word and image.
Originally published in 1983.
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