Saint Francis of Assisi; Base with Putti

1600–20

Attributed to Nicolo Roccatagliata (Italian, 1593–1636)

Saint Francis reveals the stigmata, or wounds of Christ, which he received miraculously toward the end of his life in 1224. Since the saint did not suffer martyrdom, his wounds were considered a sign of his special closeness to Jesus. They became a principal feature of representations of the saint during the Counter-Reformation, the Catholic response to the criticisms of the Protestant Reformation. Nicolo Roccatagliata was a master of bronze sculpture and probably executed this statuette during a decade of activity based in Venice that began in 1593.

Status: On View, Gallery 206
Department: Painting and Sculpture of Europe

Artist: Nicolò Roccatagliata
Title: Saint Francis of Assisi; Base with Putti
Place: Italy (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1600–1620
Medium: Bronze
Dimensions: 108.6 × 40.7 × 29.3 cm (42 3/4 × 16 × 11 1/2 in.)
Credit Line: Kate S. Buckingham Endowment
Reference Number: 1945.187, 1945.674
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Art Institute of Chicago, “The Year 1945,” Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago 40, 4 (1946), 9 (ill.).
Oswald Goetz, Meyric Rogers, “The Curators Speak: A Discussion of a Bronze of St. Francis of Assisi, the Work of Nicolò Roccatagliata,” Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago 40, no. 5 (1940), 56-59 (ill.).

Henri Daguerre, Paris [according to information from Joseph Brummer, New York]. (Nicolas?) Brimo, Paris, by 1929 [Brummer index card P6249 in the Cloisters Library and Archives, New York]; sold to Joseph Brummer, New York, 29 July 1929 [see source cited above]; sold to the Art Institute, 1945.

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