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Nicolò Boldrini

Saint Francis Receiving the Stigmata

1535/45
Woodcut in black on paper
29.5 × 43.3 cm (11.6 × 17 in)

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FROM THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO’S CATALOG

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.

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