MAKE A MEME View Large Image Italian - Plaque with Saint Francis Receiving the Stigmata - Walters 481517.jpg This damaged plaque depicts St Francis receiving the stigmata It is painted in gold and ruby lustre and in blue copper-green yellow ochre black and opaque white ...
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Keywords: Italian - Plaque with Saint Francis Receiving the Stigmata - Walters 481517.jpg This damaged plaque depicts St Francis receiving the stigmata It is painted in gold and ruby lustre and in blue copper-green yellow ochre black and opaque white The main surface is scraped down leaving a raised frame At the entrance of a cave St Francis turned three-quarters right kneels on his right knee receiving rays from a crucified seraph At the right on the opposite bank of a stream a monk drowses against a rock a book lying open on the ground beside him In the background is a castle with turrets rising from a lake on which are two boatmen The back is unglazed between 1518 1520 Renaissance earthenware with tin glaze maiolica cm 30 2 accession number 48 1517 5788 Taylor date and mode of acquisition unknown no 111 Henry Walters city Baltimore Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters 1916 Harborplace Light Street Pavilion Special Display Harborplace Baltimore 1982 place of origin Gubbio Italy Walters Art Museum license Italian Renaissance maiolica in the Walters Art Museum Italian art in the Walters Art Museum Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review Stigmatisation of Francis of Assisi Gubbio maiolica
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