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Saint Francis Receiving the Stigmata
c. 1633 · oil paint, canvas · Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent (MSK)
For Saint Francis of Assisi · 4 October
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Rays come down from Christ crucified on wings, and Francis kneels with his hands open, a wound in one palm and a rent in his habit over the wound in his side. He does not look up at the seraph. His face turns out toward us; the MSK Gent calls it full of pain and confusion. At the left, Brother Leo lifts a hand against the light, the witness the British Museum's engraving after this canvas shows dazzled. Bonaventure wrote that Francis marvelled at a vision he could not fathom and understood it only afterwards, when the Lord revealed it. A skull and a book lie by his knee, signs, the museum says, of the contemplative life. Rubens painted it for a side altar of the Recollects' church in Ghent; their convent stood until 1797. Understanding came later. The wounds came first.
Sources: Seraph bearing image of crucified Christ, meaning of stigmata as gift via seraphic love · The British Museum, P,1891-0414-789, after Rubens (MSK Gent S-9). · Francis's face, full of pain and confusion; skull and book as symbols of contemplative ascetic life · Bonaventure, 'Legenda Maior' (The Major Legend of Saint Francis), XIII.3. · Inventaris Onroerend Erfgoed, thema 2955, 'Recollettenlei', Ghent.