- Title:
- Saint Francis
- Object name(s):
- Picture; Italian
- Brief description:
- This praying saint comes from the upper tier of a large polyptych (multi-panelled altarpiece) which Crivelli painted in 1476 for the high altar of the church of San Domenico, in Ascoli Piceno in the Italian Marche. This is Saint Francis, founder of the Franciscan Order -- friars who lived in towns and cities to provide educated preachers and teachers for a growing urban population.The austere grey of his habit with its crisp, deep folds forms a striking contrast to the glittering damask patterns tooled into the gilded background. Crivelli was skilled at exploiting the optical effects of the different gold surfaces, which would have flickered and shone in the candlelight of a medieval church, making the smooth gold and raised decoration of Francis's halo act as a spotlight on his head.
- Collection:
- National Gallery
- Accession date:
- 1868-01-01
- Date - earliest / single:
- 1868
- Date - latest:
- 1868
- Credit line:
- Bought, 1868
- Current location:
- Room 10
- Current reproduction location:
- 3/53/790/680/mid_N-0788-06-000034.jpg
- Current reproduction location:
- 858/590/115/mid_N-0788-06-000011.jpg
- Current reproduction location:
- 960/876/664/mid_N-0788-06-000032.jpg
- Dimension:
- Height
- Dimension measured part:
- Overall
- Dimension measurement unit:
- cm
- Dimension value:
- 61.00
- Dimension:
- Width
- Dimension measured part:
- Overall
- Dimension measurement unit:
- cm
- Dimension value:
- 39.50
- Form:
- Veneer
- Material:
- egg tempera on wood
- Material:
- egg tempera
- Material:
- poplar
- Object name:
- Picture; Italian
- Object production date:
- 1476
- Date - earliest / single:
- 1476
- Date - latest:
- 1476
- Object production date:
- Date - period:
- 1450-99
- Object production person:
- Carlo Crivelli
- Person's birth date:
- 1430
- Person's death date:
- 1494
- Other number:
- NG788.6
- Other number type:
- object number
- Other number:
- 0FRD-0001-0000-0000
- Other number type:
- PID
- Other number:
- NG788.6
- Other number type:
- display number
- Other number:
- NG788
- Other number type:
- Previous Object Number
- Other number:
- 000-03V6-0000
- Other number type:
- PID (NG alternative)
- Other number:
- ng2788.06
- Other number type:
- sort number
- Responsible department/section:
- Main Collection
- Right note:
- To encourage the use and reuse of the National Gallery's collection data, they are released under the following dedications and licences: Structured data (as opposed to narrative texts) are released under a Creative Commons Zero dedication (CC0): https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/. Descriptions, notes and all other narrative text content are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence (CC BY): https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. Images are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 licence (CC BY-NC-ND): https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/.
- Style:
- early Renaissance
- User's reference:
- National Gallery Catalogues: The Earlier Italian Schools
- Reference details:
- 161-5
- Reference note:
- Latest catalogue
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- National Gallery Catalogues: The Earlier Italian Schools
- Reference details:
- 124-7
- Reference note:
- Previous catalogues
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- The National Gallery: Complete Illustrated Catalogue
- Reference details:
- 161
- Reference note:
- Key bibliography
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- Italian Pictures of the Renaissance: A List of the Principal Artists and Their Works, with an Index of Places
- Reference details:
- 161
- Reference note:
- Select bibliography
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- Pitture italiane del Rinascimento: Catalogo dei principali artisti e delle loro opere con un indice dei luoghi
- Reference details:
- 139
- Reference note:
- Select bibliography
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- L'opera completa del Crivelli
- Reference details:
- 92-93
- Reference note:
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- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- Carlo Crivelli und seine Schule
- Reference details:
- 19, 62-80, 132
- Reference note:
- Select bibliography
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- Gold Brocade and Renaissance Painting: A Study in Material Culture
- Reference details:
- 354
- Reference note:
- Select bibliography
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- Giotto to Dürer: Early Renaissance Painting in the National Gallery
- Reference details:
- 334
- Reference note:
- Select bibliography
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- 'It will form such an Ornament for Our Gallery': La National Gallery e la pittura de Carlo Crivelli (1856-1868)
- Reference details:
- 1-22
- Reference note:
- Select bibliography
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- Storia pittorica della italia dal risorgimento delle belle arti fin presso al fine del XVIII secolo
- Reference details:
- 3.19
- Reference note:
- Select bibliography
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- Ascoli in prospettiva: Colle sue più singolari pitture, sculture e architetture
- Reference details:
- 76
- Reference note:
- Select bibliography
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- The Earlier Italian Schools
- Reference details:
- 161-5
- Reference note:
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- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- Carlo Crivelli
- Reference details:
- 211
- Reference note:
- Select bibliography
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- Saggio delle cose ascolane e de'vescovi di Ascoli nel Piceno dalla fondazione della città sino… all'anno mille settecento sessanta sei
- Reference details:
- 349
- Reference note:
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- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- Descrizione delle pitture, sculture, architetture ed altre cose rare della insigne città di Ascoli nella Marca
- Reference details:
- 44-5
- Reference note:
- Select bibliography
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- Répertoire de peintres du Moyen Âge et de la Renaissance (1250-1580)
- Reference details:
- 213
- Reference note:
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- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- Memorie storiche delle arti e degli artisti della Marca di Ancona
- Reference details:
- 211
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- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- Quelques tableaux de la galerie Rinuccini décrits et illustrés
- Reference details:
- 17-20
- Reference note:
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- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- Carlo Crivelli
- Reference details:
- 90
- Reference note:
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- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- L'arte nelle Marche
- Reference details:
- 2.388-90
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- User's reference:
- Giovanni Battista Cavalcaselle: Conoscitore e conservatore: Atti del convegno
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- User's reference:
- Le origini della pittura veneziana 1300-1500
- Reference details:
- 201-2
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- Reference type:
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- User's reference:
- Storia dell'arte italiana
- Reference details:
- 7.3.348, 7.3.350, 7.3.370-6
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- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- Carlo Crivelli nelle Marche
- Reference details:
- 61-2
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- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- Carlo Crivelli
- Reference note:
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- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- Crivelli
- Reference details:
- 21
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- reference
- User's reference:
- Giorno per giorno nella pittura: Scritti sull'arte dell'Italia centrale e meridionale dal Trecento al primo Cinquecento
- Reference details:
- 166-7
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- User's reference:
- Francesco Saverio de Zelada (1717-1801)
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- User's reference:
- Cinque schede per Carlo Crivelli
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- User's reference:
- Anatole Demidoff, Prince of San Donato (1812-70)
- Reference details:
- 26
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- reference
- User's reference:
- Devotion by design : Italian altarpieces before 1500 /Scott Nethersole.
- Reference details:
- Ill. fig. 80 (p. 107)
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- If the paintings could talk… / Michael Wilson ; with a foreword by Andrew Marr.
- Reference details:
- Ill. (p. 67)
- Reference type:
- reference
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