Stigmatization by Van Eyck

 

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The episode is represented according to the text of the life of the saint written by Tommaso da Celano. It is said that St. Francis received the stigmata in front of the cave of La Verna, where he had the vision of Christ covered by the wings of seraphim. Van Eyck added to the story the figure of Brother Leo, the brother asleep on the rock of the cave, and in the background a beautiful landscape with a Flemish city in the distance. An almost identical version of the painting exists in the Museum of Art in Philadelphia, recognized as an autograph replica. The two paintings are believed to match those described in the will of the Flemish-Genoese merchant Anselm Adornes, who in 1470 left a van Eyck Saint Francis to each of his two daughters.

ADVERTISEMENT warm blanket with the image of St. Francis in ecstasy