Luca Giordano, 1680 - The Virgin and Child Appearing to Saint Francis of Assisi - fine art print

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In 1680 Luca Giordano created this artpiece with the title "The Virgin and Child Appearing to Saint Francis of Assisi". The more than 340 year-old original was painted with the dimensions - Framed: 273 x 229 x 10 cm (107 1/2 x 90 3/16 x 3 15/16 in); Unframed: 239,4 x 195,7 cm (94 1/4 x 77 1/16 in). Oil on canvas was applied by the European artist as the technique for the masterpiece. The painting has the following text as inscrption: "signed lower center: Jordanus F.". This artpiece belongs to the The Cleveland Museum of Art's collection, which is one of the leading museums worldwide that builds, preserves, studies, and shares its outstanding collections of art from all periods and parts of the world, generating new scholarship and understanding, while serving as a social and intellectual hub for its community. We are pleased to reference that the artwork, which is part of the public domain is being supplied with courtesy of The Cleveland Museum of Art. The creditline of the artwork is the following: Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund. Besides, the alignment of the digital reproduction is portrait and has an image ratio of 1 : 1.2, meaning that the length is 20% shorter than the width. Luca Giordano was a male painter from Italy, whose art style was mainly Baroque. The Baroque artist was born in 1632 in Naples, Napoli province, Campania, Italy and passed away at the age of 73 in 1705.

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This work represents the High Baroque tradition of illustrating the visions and ecstasies of holy figures. St. Francis stands to the right of the apparition of the Virgin and Child, while motioning to a mother with three young infants, a symbolic representation of Charity. A popular Italian saint, St. Francis of Assisi (1181?- 1226) was famed for his many holy visions and was reported to have received the stigmata, bodily punctures that echoed the crucifixion wounds of Christ. Close observation of the painting reveals that Giordano originally painted St. Francis motioning his hands towards the Virgin and Child, perhaps reaching for the Infant Christ. In the final version, however, St. Francis gestures to the figure of Charity, as a witness to the saint's spiritual vision. The saint thus serves as the intermediary for humankind, appealing to the Virgin and Child for the sake of Charity. St. Francis, the founder of the Franciscan order of monastics, dedicated his life to assisting the poor and remains one of the most popular Catholic saints.

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