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Description: | St Francis of Assisi was said to have gone into the wilderness with some followers to pray. When he asked to know Christ's suffering, a vision appeared to him and pierced him with the Stigmata. The subject was common in religious painting, although the nature of the vision often varied. Here, the faint form emerging amid a brilliant golden light follows the popular notion of a seraph-like man with six wings, his arms and legs outstretched in the shape of a crucifix. The style and treatment of the subject, as well as the background architecture, suggest the artist was seventeenth-century Italian. | Subjects: | religion (St Francis) | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Italian School Æ Vos, Maarten de (Flemish painter, 1532-1603) | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8501... | Go to resource |
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