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Saint Francis
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Master of Sir John FastolfFrench Illuminator · 1420–1450
All works by this person →The Master of Sir John Fastolf was an anonymous illuminator active in France and England in the second quarter of the 1400s, during the period of French-English strife known as the Hundred Years War. The Master's name comes from a manuscript he illuminated for Sir John Fastolf in England around 1450. The Master of Sir John Fastolf first worked in Paris with the Boucicaut Master before 1420 and the
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- about 1430–1440
- Medium
- Tempera colors, gold leaf, and ink
- Culture
- French or English
- Department
- Manuscripts
- Institution
- Getty Museum
Saint Francis of Assisi kneels in prayer at the center of a lush green landscape representing Mount La Verna in Umbria, Italy where he prayed and fasted for forty days. During a moment of intense prayer, a crucified seraph, or six-winged angel, appeared to Francis and imprinted the stigmata--Christ's Crucifixion wounds) on the saint's body, shown here by the red lines that connect the seraph's wounds to Francis's hands, feet, and side. The saint embodies the attempts by late medieval Christians to spiritually imitate Christ using private prayer books, like this one, to focus their meditations on Jesus's life, teachings, and suffering.
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