Saint Francis Receiving the Stigmata

Art Institute of Chicago

Saint Francis Receiving the Stigmata

Nicolò Boldrini (Italian, c. 1500–1566)

Date
1535/45
Medium
Woodcut in black on paper
Culture
Italy
Department
Prints and Drawings
Institution
Art Institute of Chicago

Technical developments in printmaking techniques allowed artists to reproduce the tonal complexities of painted compositions. In this woodcut after a design by Titian, the cutter accomplished a lively sense of differentiated surfaces through the use of graphic patterns. The dynamic lines of the landscape serve to heighten Francis’s gesture of religious rapture.

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Object type
AAT300041273

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