Vission of St Francis Carracci 1583

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The painting "The Vision of San Francisco de Asis", by Ludovico Carracci, is dated between 1583 and 1585, made in oil on canvas; It has measures of 103 cm. × 102 cm.

The painter Ludovico Carracci was one of the first artists to explore the emotional side of religious revelation. Here is illustrated, for the first time in art, an episode in which one of the followers of Saint Francis witnessed an apparition of the Virgin with the Child Jesus. Carracci distinguished the heavenly light around the Virgin from the night moonlit landscape (left in the painting), at the same time emphasizing the intensely spiritual nature of the Saint Francis experience. 

Ludovico Carracci was one of the earliest painters to explore the emotional side of religious revelation. Here he illustrated, for the first time in art, an episode in which one of Saint Francis’s followers witnessed an apparition of the Virgin giving the Christ Child to the saint to hold. Carracci distinguished the heavenly light around the Virgin from the nocturnal moonlit landscape (on the left at the painting), at the same time he emphasized the intensely spiritual nature of Francis’s experience.