In the foreground, St. Francis, dressed in a large habit, receives the stigmata from Christ who appears crucified at the top right, wrapped in fiery red feathers. Next to the saint, another friar sitting in front of a church, is intent on reading. A rocky landscape forms the background. The work was initially attributed by Chini (1912) to Sebastiano di Cola da Casentino mistakenly exchanging it with a panel of the same subject, documented by this painter, who also wrote an Annunciation in the church of S. Maria ad Cryptas in Fossa, dated and signed. This attribution was subsequently refuted by F. Bologna (1950) due to the incompatibilities found between this work and that of Fossa who referred it, together with a panel depicting The Stories of S. Giovanni da Capestrano, coming from the same convent, to a pictorial personality of Iberian-Flemish-Burgundian cultural training, to which are added elements of the Po Valley-Ferrara to whom he gave the name of Master of S. Giovanni da Capestrano. Cannatà (1981), on the basis of stylistic analogies, identified, in the Master of S. Giovanni da Capestrano that Paolo Aquilano author of the signed wooden sculpture, depicting S. Francesco, in the church of S. Maria della Pace in Fontecchio.