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Saint Francis of Assisi died on 4 October 1226, surrounded by his friars at the chapel of the Portiuncula, outside Assisi. Rather than in a tiny chapel, here the saint lies on a bier in front of the altar of a large pink and blue church, surrounded by friars, church officials and other witnesses. This is the last in a series of eight scenes of the life of Saint Francis, which were depicted on the back of a complex altarpiece painted for the Franciscan church in the Tuscan town of Borgo San Sepolcro. Here, as elsewhere on this altarpiece, Sassetta has departed from the scripta, the written instructions given to him by the friars, which had simply asked him to depict the saint’s death. He also painted the verification of the stigmata (the wounds Christ received at the Crucifixion, which Francis also miraculously experienced).
Title
The Funeral of Saint Francis and Verification of the Stigmata
Date
1437-44
Medium
Egg tempera on poplar
Measurements
H 88.4 x W 53.5 cm
Accession number
NG4763
Acquisition method
Bought with contributions from The Art Fund, Benjamin Guinness and Lord Bearsted, 1934.
Work type
Painting
The National Gallery, London
Trafalgar Square, London, Greater London WC2N 5DN England
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