 The Ecstasy of St. Francis is depicting Francis in a religious ecstasy, perhaps receiving the stigmata, as Millard Meiss suggested though, when Francis is receiving the sigmata, usually an angel, a seraph or a crucifix emitting rays is depicted as well.Alternatively, he may be praying or perhaps singing his "Canticle of the Sun", as Richard Turner has argued.Whatever the specific moment portrayed may be, the representation is a fresh one and does not follow any of the established iconographic motifs.