Scenes from the Life of St Francis (Scene 6, north wall)

Scenes from the Life of St Francis (Scene 6, north wall), at the Museum Complex of San Francesco in Montefalco, continues the narrative sequence with a specific episode on the north wall of the nave. The sequential numbering of scenes indicates a deliberate narrative order that the viewer was expected to follow as they moved through the church, making the fresco cycle a total devotional environment rather than a collection of independent images. Gozzoli's ability to sustain compositional freshness across so many scenes was among the most remarked qualities of his narrative skill.

Gozzoli's north wall scene maintains the consistent formal language of the cycle—horizon-level figures in a light-filled landscape with blue sky—while adapting the composition to the specific episode's narrative requirements. His ability to vary the cast of secondary figures while maintaining coherent group dynamics across the cycle is one of the technical achievements of the Montefalco commission.