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Saint Francis
ca. 1650
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The haunting realism of this polychromed wooden sculpture is characteristic of seventeenth-century Spanish art, meant to elicit emotion and contemplation. According to legend, the miraculously preserved body of Saint Francis of Assisi (d. 1226) appeared to Pope Nicholas V during a visit to the saint’s tomb in 1449. Saint Francis’s body is described as it appears here: intact, eyes turned heavenward, hands concealed, and one of his stigmata, or wounds, freshly bleeding on his chest. Notice, too, the gaunt face, sallow complexion, and glass eyes, liquid and eerily alive, which together evoke a suffering, sickly man.
Association of Ramaytush Ohlone executive director Jonathan Cordero and radio journalist Hana Baba on “Saint Francis”
Gallery 5
- Attributed to
- Bernardo del Rincon
- Title
- Saint Francis
- Date
- ca. 1650
- Place of Creation
- Valladolid
- Object Type
- Sculpture
- Medium
- Wood with polychromy, glass, and rope
- Dimensions
- 43 1/2 in. (110.5 cm)
- Credit Line
- Museum purchase, Gift of Bank of America, by exchange
- Accession Number
- 2018.20