# The Vision of the Blessed Clare of Rimini [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [FRANCESCO DA RIMINI]() - Date: 1301-1350 - Technique: Egg tempera on wood, 55 x 60 cm ## Commentary Blessed Clare \(Beata Chiara\) of Rimini \(c. 1265-c. 1326\) was one of the many religious penitents who lived a pious and self-abnegating life, often experiencing visions, and who after death became the object of mainly local popular devotion. Blessed Clare kneels in the bottom left-hand corner. She is being handed a book by St John the Evangelist. Christ, dressed in a blue and silver robe, shows her the wounds in his side and hands. Behind Christ are the other eleven Apostles, including St Peter, who stretches out his hands towards her. and also St John the Baptist, identifiable by his camel-skin garment. This panel belonged to an altarpiece. A panel depicting the Adoration of the Magi \(Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, Coral Gables\) was identified as part of the same altarpiece. This altarpiece is related to <a onclick="return OpenOther\('/html/m/master/xink\_it/xunk\_it2/11crucif.html'\)" href="/html/m/master/xink\_it/xunk\_it2/11crucif.html">another altarpiece</a> executed by a Riminese collaborator of Francesco da Rimini. This altarpiece \(Musée Fesch, Ajaccio\) consists of similar panels, The Adoration of the Magi \(left\), The Crucifixion \(centre\), and The Vision of the Blessed Clare of Rimini \(right\). Although the Fesch altarpiece was also attributed to Francesco da Rimini by some critics, there are several differences between the two altarpieces which contradict this assumption. \*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\* Italian painter. He was recorded in Rimini in 133 and had died there in 1348. His only surviving, but undated, works are the now detached frescoes \(Pinacoteca Nazionale, Bologna\) once in the refectory of San Francesco, Bologna, which are heavily dependent on the Franciscan scenes in the Upper Church of San Francesco, Assisi. Recent dating of the Bolognese frescoes placed them in the early 1320s. Francesco da Rimiini was among the many Riminese painters deeply influenced by the work of Giotto. It was suggested that The Master of the Blessed Clare \(named after a panel in the National Gallery, London\) is identical with Francesco da Rimini, however it is not accepted universally. ## Related artworks - [Annunciating Angel]() - [The Adoration of the Magi]() - [The Vision of the Blessed Clare of Rimini \(detail\)]() - [The Vision of the Blessed Clare of Rimini \(detail\)]() - [The Vision of the Blessed Clare of Rimini \(detail\)]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()