Saint Francis Receiving the Stigmata (Gentile da Fabriano)

Saint Francis Receiving the Stigmata is an oil and tempera painting by Gentile da Fabriano, executed c. 1420, now in the Magnani-Rocca Foundation in the Province of Parma in Italy. It is the back of a processional banner - the front showing the Coronation of the Virgin is now in the Getty Center in Los Angeles.

Saint Francis Receiving the Stigmata (c. 1420) by Gentile da Fabriano

The banner was painted for a confraternity based at the San Francesco Monastery in Fabriano, the painter's birthplace - he had returned there from Brescia for a few months in spring 1420 before moving on to Florence. Ambrogio de' Bizochis was probably the intermediary between the painter and the confraternity - he was cousin to Egidio, brother of Gentile's wife.[1][2]

References
  1. Mauro Minardi, Gentile da Fabriano, Skira, Milano 2005.
  2. Laura Laureati, Lorenza Mochi Onori (organization), Gentile da Fabriano e l'altro Rinascimento (catalogue of the exhibition held in February 2006), Milan, Electa, 2006, pp. 180-185 (Italian), ISBN 88-370-3768-6
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