No choice could have been better at any time in the history of art.

Giotto chose the following scenes, one or two of which coincide with those on Benedetto da Maiano's pulpit, which came of course many years later: the "Confirmation of the Rules of the Franciscans," "S.

Francis before the Sultan and the Magi," "S.

Francis Sick and Appearing to the Bishop of Assisi," "S.

Francis Fleeing from His Father's House and His Reception by the Bishop of Assisi," and the "Death of S.Francis".