On 14 September 1224, after forty days of fasting, Francis of Assisi received the stigmata from Christ on Mount Verna, who appeared to him in the form of a crucified seraph. His companion, Brother Leo, is asleep. There is an autographed replica of this table preserved in the Philadelphia museum. It is likely that the two paintings correspond to those that a Bruges merchant of Genoese origin, Anselm Adornes, bequeathed to his two daughters, both nuns, in 1470. The invention of the landscape, a microcosm populated by small figures, is extraordinarily fascinating. performed with the tip of a brush, with pilgrims on foot and on horseback, on their way to a fortified city by a lake, to be interpreted as an imaginative version of Jerusalem, on which opens a blue sky, mottled with clouds and furrowed by flying birds .