This class we discussed St. Francis who left his family to spend time with beggars and preaches the importance of poverty in order to get closer with Christ. People soon follow and a brotherhood forms. Two years after he dies he is canonized as a saint. This led to the creation of the work the Life of Saint Francis. We also discussed the Lamentation over the Dead Christ, a lifesize sculpture of Christ’s death. It is highly emotional and the patron is seen in the scene praying. Finally we discussed the Garden of Earthy Delights, which was a very complicated work that had many tiny figures and mystical beings and structures that all represent a chemical process of distillation. I think it is interesting how the step of putrefaction (burning) is represented by Hell and the final step is depicted by the closed triptych.