Art Institute of Chicago
Approval of the Rules of the Franciscan Order by Pope Innocent III in 1209
Livio Agresti
- Date
- n.d.
- Medium
- Pen and brown ink, with brush and brown wash, heightened with lead white gouache, over incising and black chalk, on cream laid paper
- Culture
- Italy
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
Saint Francis kneels before Pope Innocent III as he sanctioned the establishment of the Franciscan order by his gesture. By the time of the Counter-Reformation, these were cornerstone traditions that reformers such as Cardinal Carlo Borromeo upheld in their reevaluation of the Roman Catholic faith after the Council of Trent.
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- Object type
- AAT300033973
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