Saint Francis Receiving the Stigmata
Nicolò Boldrini
1535/45
Medium
Woodcut in black on paper
Dimensions
29.5 × 43.3 cm (11 5/8 × 17 1/16 in.)
Classification
woodcut
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
83893
Rights
Public Domain
About this artwork
Technical developments in printmaking techniques allowed artists to reproduce the tonal complexities of painted compositions. In this woodcut after a design by Titian, the cutter accomplished a lively sense of differentiated surfaces through the use of graphic patterns. The dynamic lines of the landscape serve to heighten Francis’s gesture of religious rapture.