The tones of brown and gold are used to illustrate the body, and a rocky niche is depicted in the shady portion.

In the foreground, the focus is on a stony, dangerous, dark, and mossy cave with a shady entrance covered by twisted grapevines.

Inside the cave, several possessions of the saint are represented, including a Holy Book, desk, hermit's skull, a thorny crown, and a crucifix made of stems.

[4] In the center and the background of this painting is a walled hill with growing fields, a bridge over a running waterway, a coastal bird similar to a gray heron, a donkey, as well as a shepherd looking at his flock grazing.

The painting depicts Saint Francis having come out of his cave in a brown traditional robe, standing barefooted, looking upwards at paradise with widely opened arms and heaving chest.

[4] The major findings such as compositional modifications, fingerprints, brushwork, sketching and the exposure of certain innovation belongs to the students of Bellini, i.e. Titian and Giorgione.

[6] Bellini became sophisticated in his painting skill in the fifteenth century, the culmination of which is the Saint Francis In Ecstasy.

In the lower right corner on a rustic reading table is a skull, representing mortality, welcomed in the last stanza of the saint's Canticle.

The stream in the left middle-ground symbolizes Moses and the great spring, while the barren tree in the center of the painting represents the Burning Bush.

The small garden contains various types of medicinal plants, such as orris and mullein or Jacob's staff, and juniper.

The painting represents not only the saint's stigmatization but also the Canticle of the Sun, a song he composed which appreciates God's creation of nature.

[5]The overall composition is thought to be a meditation of Saint Francis on the creation of the world as related in the Book of Genesis.

[9] Francis took refuge in Mount La Verna, a deserted place in the Apennines, outside of Arezzo, Tuscany.