Scene that is part of a series of twenty paintings dedicated to Saint Francis of Assisi. It represents Saint Francis eating with Saint Clare and other nuns and friars. The saint spoke with such kindness and love of God during the dinner, that the abundance of Divine Grace fell on the diners, which was so much that from the village of Assisi it seemed as if flames were coming out of the convent. To the right of the composition you can see how the people of the town run to put out this real-looking fire. What stands out from the work is the delicate naturalistic treatment of the objects and the food represented, as well as the expression and play of gazes of the characters, facts that denote the painter’s technical prowess. Antoni Viladomat is the most important painter of the first half of the 18th century in Catalonia. Its aesthetic proposal curdles in a society that recovers social, economic and cultural dynamism after the destruction of the War of Succession.
