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Approval of the Rules of the Franciscan Order by Pope Innocent III in 1209

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Pen and brown ink, with brush and brown wash, heightened with lead white gouache, over incising and black chalk, on cream laid paper
28.8 × 20.3 cm (11.3 × 8 in)

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FROM THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO’S CATALOG

Saint Francis kneels before Pope Innocent III as he sanctioned the establishment of the Franciscan order by his gesture. By the time of the Counter-Reformation, these were cornerstone traditions that reformers such as Cardinal Carlo Borromeo upheld in their reevaluation of the Roman Catholic faith after the Council of Trent.

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