medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
"Jonathan Canning" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> There is in the collection of the Loyola Museum of Art in Chicago a late
>> fifteenth-century altarpiece by the Circle of Lorenzo Salimbeni that
>> depicts in its lower register a cardinal kneeling in prayer before a
>> crucifix with a corpus. The cardinal has the marks of the stigmata on his
>> hands. The museum's object card identifies the figure as St. Francis, but
>> surely he was never depicted as a cardinal. In the painting, his hat sits
>> on the ground next to him. Does anyone on the list know who else this
>> might be?
...And I'm sure you've considered another possibility: that the painting DID originally show St. Francis, with the cardinal's attributes added later.... though I admit, I can't understand why someone would do that!
A stigmatized Cardinal does sound more logical, if there were any.
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