# Pope Nicholas V Opening the Tomb of St Francis of Assisi in 1449 [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [LA HYRE, Laurent de]() - Date: 1601-1650 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 221 x 164 cm ## Commentary La Hyre's main training consisted of studying the works at Fontainebleau, particularly those of Primaticcio, but also those of Dubois and the other painters of Henry IV's time. The effect of this training can be seen in his earliest surviving work, for example in the present altarpiece painted for the Capuchins in the Marais. In this altarpiece the architectural setting, seen in sharp perspective, is used very much as it had been in the ceiling panels of the Galerie d'Ulysse. ## Related artworks - [Abraham Sacrificing Isaac]() - [Allegory of Arithmetic]() - [Allegory of Astronomy]() - [Allegory of Geometry]() - [Allegory of Geometry]() - [Allegory of Grammar]() - [Allegory of Grammar]() - [Allegory of Music]() - [Allegory of the Regency]() - [Angelica and Medoro \(detail\)]() - [Angelica and Medoro]() - [Christ The Judge]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()