Approval of the Rules of the Franciscan Order by Pope Innocent III in 1209
Livio Agresti
1528–1579
- Medium
- Pen and brown ink, with brush and brown wash, heightened with lead white gouache, over incising and black chalk, on cream laid paper
- Dimensions
- Sight: 28.8 × 20.3 cm (11 3/8 × 8 in.)
- Genre
- pen and ink drawings
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Tags
brush and washdrawings (visual works)chalkpen and ink drawingsgouacheprints and drawingpaperchalk with inkbrush and inkpaper (fiber product)
About
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.
