The initiative, which has been awarded the MEDAL OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC, is promoted and organized by the National Museums of Perugia - Regional Directorate of National Museums Umbria, in collaboration with the National Committee for the Celebrations of the Eighth Centenary of the death of St. Francis of Assisi, the Extraordinary Commissioner for the Reconstruction of the 2016 Earthquake, the Superintendence of Archaeology, Fine Arts and Landscape of Umbria, the Umbria Region, the General Custody of the Sacred Convent of St. Francis, the Seraphic Province of the Friars Minor of Umbria and Sardinia, the Archdiocese of Perugia - Città della Pieve, the Municipality of Perugia and Confindustria Umbria. The event benefits from the collaboration of the State Archive of Perugia and the contribution of the Umbria Region, Chamber of Commerce of Perugia, Perugia Foundation, Terni and Narni Savings Bank Foundation, Foligno Savings Bank Foundation, ARVEDI AST and Nestlé; media partner RAI Umbria.

The exhibition, entitled Giotto and St. Francis. A revolution in 14th-century Umbria, curated by Veruska Picchiarelli and Emanuele Zappasodi, will tell of a happy conjunction in the history of culture that had Umbria as its stage between the end of the 13th century and the first decades of the 14th century.

The review will focus on the epochal moment when the charisma of Francis meets the genius of Giotto to give life to a revolution that marks the birth of modern art; in fact, in the late 13th century, there was a transition from a refined and stylized language, indebted to the Byzantine tradition, of the so-called "Greek manner", to the figurative revolution promoted by the Florentine master, capable of capturing and rendering reality and its emotions with a coherence and credibility hitherto entirely unprecedented.