The picture, by reminding us of the three Wise Men, commemorated the birthday of the King as well as his coronation, the two chief dates of his life.
You have some idea now of the train of thought which this fourteenth-century painter endeavoured to express in his picture commemorative of the coronation of a King.

A medieval coronation was a very solemn ceremony indeed, and the picture had to be a serious expression of the great traditions of the throne of England, suggested by the figures of St.Edward and St.Edmund, and of hope for future good to the realm, to ensue from the blessings of the Virgin and Child upon the young King.

Religious feeling is dominant in this picture, and if from it you could turn to others of like date, you would find the same to be true.

The meaning was the main thing thought of.

When Giotto painted his scenes from the life of St.Francis, his first aim was that the stories should be well told and easily grasped by all who looked at them.