that's what this fresco expresses the small angel is both messenger and message a new era in the relationship between humanity and the heavenly smear has begun. hall further southwards we reach a place of great importance in christian iconography assisi. in burgundy joining the twelve century monasteries had adopted a strict the only nice liturgy and had almost completely rejected imagery. in the thirteenth century new waters arose in central italy this one in assisi was to be a purely mendicant told a completely dedicated to charity and neighborly love as the most direct path to redemption. the building of the lower church began in the early thirteenth century together with thomas aquinas francis of