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The Vision of Saint Francis
Federico Barocci (Italian, c. 1535-1612)
1581
- Medium
- Etching and engraving on ivory laid paper
- Classification
- Dimensions
- 53.8 × 32.4 cm (21 3/16 × 12 13/16 in.)
- Culture
- Italy
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago, Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Joseph Brooks Fair Fund
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
View at the Art Institute of Chicago
About this work
In this dramatic etching, Saint Francis of Assisi kneels in an ecstatic trance, with his palms outstretched toward the vibrant holy host he envisions above him. This print reproduces the painted altarpiece that Federico Barocci completed in 1576 for the church of San Francesco, Urbino. The setting of the chapel in which the altarpiece still hangs is included in this composition. The print, though technically reproductive, transcends didactic repetition through the graphic zeal of Barocci’s etched line.
Description © Art Institute of Chicago, CC BY 4.0
