Saint Francis in Prayer (Caravaggio)
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Artist | Caravaggio |
Year | c. 1606 |
Medium | Oil on canvas |
Dimensions | 130 cm × 98 cm (51 in × 39 in) |
Location | Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica, Rome |
Saint Francis in Prayer (c. 1602-1604) is a painting from the Italian master Caravaggio, in the Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica in Rome.
The painting is unrecorded and therefore difficult to date, or even to distinguish the original from later copies. John Gash (see references, below) identifies a version in the Chiesa dei Cappuccini as a good copy of a lost original identified by some scholars with a painting in the Church of San Pietro, Carpineto Romano (Museo di
Background
In the course of a libel trial in 1603 Caravaggio's friend Orazio Gentileschi stated that he had lent the artist a monk's robe several months before, and this painting could be connected. Gentileschi's evidence seems to be the main argument behind a 1602/1604 date; but Robb, on the grounds of the austere approach and less painterly technique of the work, believes that it may date from 1606, when Caravaggio had fled Rome as an outlaw following a death in a street brawl.
See also
References
- Gash, John (2003). Caravaggio. ISBN 1-904449-22-0.
- ISBN 0-06-433322-1.
- Langdon, Helen (1998). Caravaggio: A Life. ISBN 0-374-11894-9.
- ISBN 0-312-27474-2.
- ISBN 0-7892-0639-0.
External links
- Media related to Saint Francis in Meditation by Caravaggio at Wikimedia Commons