Saint Francis in Meditation
The original, as its museum records it
Every line above is reproduced from the holding institution’s own catalogue entry, which is linked. Where their title, date or attribution differs from ours, theirs is the one printed here.
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Francis shows us a crucifix that bleeds. The Accademia calls the body not painted wood but real flesh, blood running from hands, feet and the thorn-crowned head — and on the hands that show it, the stigmata that make him alter Christus. Two wounded bodies, not one.
Rose branches interlace above the cross, flowerless, few leaves, many thorns. The museum gives them double duty: Christ's crown, and the brambles Francis threw himself into to resist the devil. One plant, two mortifications.
Below the skull, writing nobody has fully read. One baptismal name comes loose: Lorenzo. He may have ordered it.
Sources: Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venezia, catalogue entry for Annibale Carracci, San Francesco, inv. 1189
Printed on demand. Public-domain masterwork, reproduced from a 9,194 px master of the original. The whole image is printed — never cropped to fit the sheet — so every sheet carries an archival margin, and the dimensions and resolution listed above are the ones you receive.