# St Francis Receiving the Stigmata [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [MASTER of San Francesco Bardi]() - Date: 1201-1250 - Technique: Tempera on wood, 81 x 51 cm ## Commentary This is a portable Franciscan diptych which critics variously associated with the Luccan school of the Berlinghieri. In actual fact the work seems to characterize admirably a period of Florentine art represented by the master mosaicists of the cupola of the Baptistery and Coppo di Marcovaldo. Characteristic of this master, who may reasonably be considered pre-Giottesque, was a direct and vehement insistence on the significance of the scene. Note, for example, the naturalness of the surroundings, with the hill and the temple rising above and almost holding up the kneeling saint as if to emphasize his bodily weight. This concreteness, a quality at the heart of Florentine painting from these very early times, might explain why Vasari attributed the work to Cimabue. <p> <table align=left cellpadding=5 border=1 width=320 bgcolor="\#99cccc"> <tr valign=middle><td><img src="/support/gif/listen.gif" border=0 valign=middle> Suggested listening \(streaming mp3, 33 minutes\):<br><a href="\#" onClick="w=window.open \('/music1/18\_cent/haydn\_m\_mass.html', 'newWin', 'scrollbars=yes,status=no,dependent=yes,screenX=0,screenY=0,width=350,height=350'\);w.opener=this;w.focus\(\);return true"><b>Michael Haydn: St Francis Mass</b></a> </td></tr></table> ## Related artworks - [Crucifix with scenes from Calvary]() - [St Francis Receiving the Stigmata]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()