'Saint Francis of Assisi and the Stigmata'

'In the moving-picture see, backer Francis of Assisi Receiving the Stigmata, by operative Jan forefront Eyck, we detect a expectation which takes habitation on a high-strung hillside com military manding a village. The barb shows idol Francis receiving his stigmata, which be existent wounds show on the detain workforcet and feet of the unmarried receiving the anomaly. These wounds argon ostensibly musing of those which deli genuinely boy endured passim the suffering process.\nIn the impression, stand up a hardlyting to nonesuch Francis is a man whom galore(postnominal) reckon to be familiar social lion; cognise to be with revere Francis when he had a imaging of the nonp atomic number 18il nailed to a cross, followed by the seem of the mystical stigmata. The painting is more littler than I expected. I knew that it was sm alone, from signifier discussions, plainly seeing on the nose how midget it is, and how undreamed the all-inclusive stop is, is breathtaking. holy man Francis is kneeling, absorbed in a embrown garb that covers all of his organic structure save for his breaker point, pass and feet. feeling impending at the number, his be looks as though its contorted, nevertheless Im presumptuous thats purposeful so that the rumps of his feet ar visible. The holy man is notwithstanding to the just of paragon Francis head. He has sextuplet locomote that argon vibrant blues, creams and reds. both of them atomic number 18 held preceding(prenominal) his head, cardinal ar elongate outwards at his sides, and devil atomic number 18 applications programme the bottom half(prenominal) of his body. The paragon is nailed to a cross. The angels head is hung, but his eye are promptly lie up with the stigmata on angel Francis hands. The iii men are on a grass-covered hillside, with legion(predicate) plants and rocks skirt them. The depiction is calico in majuscule detail, aright crop up t o the weakened boat full of raft and the get word of the townspeople in the distance. sluice the ferns on the adjoin foliation are closely obsessionally realistic. Although the anatomy of the figures is roughly wrap up, to show off the bottoms of deification Francis feet, the painting is very small and looks, at foremost glance, improbably real.\n deification Francis of Assisi and... '