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In the spring of 1420 Gentile da Fabriano came home. He had been working in Brescia and would soon leave for Florence, where his career would peak, but for a few months he was back in Fabriano, the small town in the Marche that gave him his name. There a Franciscan confraternity had him paint a processional banner, a double-sided cloth to be carried aloft in religious parades. This is the back. It shows Francis on the bare slopes of Monte La Verna at the moment a six-winged angel appears and marks his hands, feet and side with the wounds of Christ. The front, a Coronation of the Virgin, now hangs at the Getty in Los Angeles, the two faces of one banner separated by an ocean.