Bishop Saint and Saint Francis of Assisi (Q18480054)

Label from: English (en)

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genre: religious art (Q2864737)
artist: Francesco di Andrea Anguilla (Q18484704)
collection: Birmingham Museum of Art (Q865736)
location: Birmingham Museum of Art (Q865736)
country of origin: Italy (Q38)
owned by: Catholic Church (Q9592) Lucca (Q13373) Birmingham Public Library (Q4916783)
material used: tempera (Q175166) panel (Q106857709)
commissioned by: Catholic Church (Q9592)
location of final assembly: Lucca (Q13373)
exhibition history: Church of San Francesco (Q93679)
depicts: Catholic bishop (Q611644) Francis of Assisi (Q676555) religious habit (Q914668) stigmata (Q190940)
instance of: painting (Q3305213)

catalog URL: http://www.artsbma.org/pieces/bishop-saint-and-saint-francis-of-assisi/

information from the Birmingham Museum of Art catalog

description: The bishop in this panel is unidentifiable, but St. Francis is distinguished by his simple brown habit and the stigmata, or marks of the five wounds of Christ's crucifixion, which St. Francis is documented as receiving in 1224. Based on the presence of St. Francis here and St. Lucy in the related painting, a possible

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