Saint Francis Receiving the Stigmata
Giotto
c. 1295–1300
Saint Francis Receiving the Stigmata is a panel painting in tempera by the Italian artist Giotto, painted around 1295–1300 for the Church of Saint Francis in Pisa and it is now in the Musée du Louvre in Paris. It shows an episode from the life of Saint Francis of Assisi togther with three scenes from his life in a predella below, and is 314 cm high (to the top of the triangle) by 162 cm wide. It is signed, or at least inscribed, OPUS IOCTI FLORENTINI ("the work of Florentine Giotto") in painted letters on a flat and now dark strip of the frame at the bottom, the inscription centred below the middle predella scene.
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