Federico Barocci
St. Francis

1600-1604
Oil on canvas
Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2003.281

St. Francis of Assisi is pictured as usual in his brown habit, stigmated hand, and rope cincture. The iconography is taken from that of hermit saints such as Rosalia of Palermo or Mary Magdalene in her final years.

An earlier version of this page said that the image shows Francis receiving the stigmata, but the book, the enclosed space, and the realistic crucifix (rather than a seraph=like Christ) make that interpretation unlikely.

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Photographed at the museum by Richard Stracke, shared under Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license.