In the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland — check current display status with the museum.
FROM THE CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART’S CATALOG
Although born into a wealthy merchant family, St. Francis (1181-1226) rejected all wordly goods, dedicating himself to chastity, humility, and selfless acts of kindness. By the time of his death, the order of friars he founded had expanded throughout Europe. In the summer of 1224, Francis visited a mountain retreat at La Verna near Assisi. After weeks of intense prayer, an angel on a cross appeared. The painter shows mystical rays of light emanating from the angel and leaving Francis with stigmata, wounds resembling those Christ suffered at the time of his crucifixion. Behind the saint, a follower throws up his hands in amazement. This predella panel, which was mounted in a row of related scenes below a larger painting, retains its original frame.
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Lorenzo Monaco — Saint Francis Receiving the Stigmata
Giovanni di Paolo (Giovanni di Paolo di Grazia) — The Exulta
Giovanni di Paolo (Giovanni di Paolo di Grazia) — Saint Cath
Domenico Veneziano — Saint Francis Receiving the Stigmata
Giovanni di Paolo (Italian, c. 1403–1482) — Predella Panel f
anonymous — Saint Dominic
Antonio Vivarini — Saint Peter Martyr Exorcizing a Woman Pos
Osservanza Master — Saint Anthony the Abbot in the Wildernes
Benozzo Gozzoli (Benozzo di Lese di Sandro) — Totila before 
Giovanni di Paolo (Giovanni di Paolo di Grazia) — The Miracu
Giovanni di Paolo (Giovanni di Paolo di Grazia) — Saint Cath
Fra Filippo Lippi — Saint Benedict Orders Saint Maurus to th
