Abstract
“In the 1480s, Giovanni Bellini painted a large panel which is now generally known as ‘St. Francis in Ecstasy’. … The painting is one of the greatest works of one of the greatest painters of the Western tradition, so understanding it is an exceedingly important enterprise. … Images and symbols, the great symbolic forms, are the shaping forces of our spiritual lives. We become what we behold.”
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