Approval of the Rules of the Franciscan Order by Pope Innocent III in 1209

Prints and Drawings

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Livio Agresti
Italian, 1508–1579

Saint Francis kneels before Pope Innocent III as he sanctioned the establishment of the Franciscan order by his gesture. By the time of the Counter-Reformation, these were cornerstone traditions that reformers such as Cardinal Carlo Borromeo upheld in their reevaluation of the Roman Catholic faith after the Council of Trent.

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Livio Agresti
Title: Approval of the Rules of the Franciscan Order by Pope Innocent III in 1209
Place: Italy (Artist's nationality)
Date: 1528–1579
Medium: Pen and brown ink, with brush and brown wash, heightened with lead white gouache, over incising and black chalk, on cream laid paper
Dimensions: Sight: 28.8 × 20.3 cm (11 3/8 × 8 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of John A. Bross in memory of Louise Smith Bross
Reference Number: 2014.1142
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Sold by Margot Gordon, New York, to John A. Bross, Mar. 1998; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2014.

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