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St Francis Receiving the Stigmata
c. 1295–1300 · fond d'or (forme en gâble à la partie supérieure) sur bois (peuplier) (gold ground, gabled at the top, on wood (poplar)) · Musée du Louvre, Paris
For Saint Francis of Assisi · 4 October
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Saint Francis kneels, and what hangs in the air is a six-winged seraph with Christ crucified between the wings, and Bonaventure says Francis did not understand what it meant. Giotto draws the gold lines from the wounds above down to the kneeling man; M. R. Lanfranchi notes that the rays arrive inverted, so Francis mirrors the crucified Christ rather than copying Him. The Louvre records the signature, Opus Iocti florentini. Seized from San Francesco in Pisa in 1812, it never went back. Heaven comes down a thread of gold.
Sources: Musée du Louvre, INV 309 ; MR 253 · Donal Cooper, "Redefining the Altarpiece in Early Renaissance Italy: Giotto's Stigmatization of Saint Francis and its Pisan Context," Art History 36, no. 4 (2013), 686–713 · M. R. Lanfranchi, "Giotto's Stigmatization of Saint Francis: An Approach for the Reconstruction of the Image" (2019) · The National Gallery, London, on recognising saints by the stigmata