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‘A small, black, repulsive picture’ is not how most people today would describe Zurbaran’s haunting painting of ‘Saint Francis in Meditation’ (1635-9) in the National Gallery. But that was how one Protestant critic of its acquisition in 1853 described this image of an Italian saint satirised three centuries earlier by the German Lutheran cleric Erasmus
The National Gallery’s Saint Francis of Assisi exhibition explores how Saint Francis captured the imagination of artists,
An excellent exploration of representations of the saint by artists from Caravaggio to Antony Gormley
The wildly popular saint should guarantee the museum a hit
A five-day biking route among historic and scenic beauty for visitors, from Umbria to Lazio, from the Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi to St. Peter's Square in...