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Saint Francis Receiving the Stigmata
Federico Barocci (Italian, 1526/28-1612)
c. 1581
- Medium
- Etching on cream laid paper
- Classification
- Dimensions
- Plate: 23 × 14.7 cm (9 1/16 × 5 13/16 in.); Sheet: 23.3 × 15 cm (9 3/16 × 5 15/16 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
A painter and skilled engraver, Federico Barocci was an experimental etcher. Here he explored the effects of light and shade by sequentially stopping out sections of the plate with a wax resist while immersing it in acid. The areas protected by the resist were not etched, while the parts that were exposed to the acid throughout the entire process were etched with dark, thick lines. The suggestive, hallucinatory effect of the resulting print dramatizes the saint’s moment of revelation, as the details of the terrestrial world fade into the pale background.
Description © Art Institute of Chicago, CC BY 4.0
