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St Francis Comforted by an Angel (San Francisco confortado por un ángel músico)
Francisco Ribalta (Solsona, Lérida, 1565 - Valencia, 1628)
Date Ca. 1620
Collection Museo Nacional del Prado
Subject Saints
Season Ordinary Time
Master 3,051 px
License Public domain
Sizes
8×10 in$49
About this painting
Two lights are burning here and they belong to different worlds. One is a friar's small candle. The other floods Francis where an angel has appeared playing music. And the friar stepping into the cell at that moment, the Prado notes, cannot see any of it. Ribalta built the scene from a print — a composition by Paolo Piazza engraved by Sadeler in 1604 — and Charles IV liked the result enough to take it from the Capuchins and leave them a copy.
Printed on demand. Public-domain masterwork, reproduced from a 3,051 px master of the original. The whole image is printed — never cropped to fit the sheet — so every sheet carries an archival margin, and the dimensions and resolution listed above are the ones you receive.