When I first saw Giotto’s fresco cycle “The Legend of St. Francis” in the ... within a few generations of Francis’s life. Soon after he took a vow of poverty to live in Christ’s ...

The National Gallery in London will next week display a couple of unusual objects for an art museum ... the Italian Renaissance, and Francis’s message of poverty, service and simplicity ...

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That of course is what St. Francis achieved at Greccio. Steven F. Ostrow, a professor of art history at the University ... of Christ and on his humility and poverty. And this is closely connected ...

Local artist Charles DeAntonio recently revealed a painting that he donated to Roper St. Francis Mount Pleasant Hospital. The painting depicts Charleston’s skyline, studded with lush green trees ...

Painted by Giotto at the end of the 13th century, they marked a turning point in Western art ... dedicated to St. Clare, who embraced radical poverty to imitate St. Francis.

Like St Francis of Assisi — who appears frequently in Renaissance painting, preaching to birds or receiving the stigmata — Pope Francis was drawn to nature, poverty, and pastoral simplicity.

Contrary to the saccharine and sanctimonious representations of St Francis, his poverty was extreme, harsh and unremitting. Neither the ordered collective poverty of a well-run monastery nor the ...

St. Francis of Assisi renounced his wealth to live in poverty. Marginalized groups will ... The latest work, by the Canadian artist Timothy P. Schmalz, was installed this month on the colonnade ...