The Image of St Francis: Responses to Sainthood in the Thirteenth CenturyCambridge University Press, 30. nov 2006 - 524 pages An important new study of the way in which St Francis's image was recorded in literature, documents, architecture and art. St Francis was a man whose personality was deliberately stamped on his Order and Rosalind Brooke explores how the stories told by Francis's companions were at once brilliantly vivid portrayals of the man as well as guides to how the Franciscan way of life ought to be led. She also examines how after St Francis's death a great monument was erected to him in the Basilica at Assisi and how this came to reflect in stone and stained glass and fresco the manner in which some Popes and leading friars believed his memory should be fostered. Highly illustrated throughout, including colour and black and white plates, this book will be essential reading for medievalists and art historians as well as anyone interested in St Francis and the Franciscan movement. |
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
The Image | 3 |
Dawn? | 6 |
THE IMAGE IN LIFE | 13 |
The Impression Francis made on contemporaries | 19 |
THE IMAGE AFTER DEATH | 31 |
Elias letter | 33 |
The papal bull of canonisation | 36 |
The Sacrum Commercium | 157 |
VISUAL IMAGES | 160 |
Pescia altar panel | 168 |
The Pisa altar panel | 172 |
The Assisi altar panel | 173 |
The Bardi altar panel | 176 |
Matthew Paris | 192 |
Kalenderhane Camii | 202 |
Thomas of Celanos First Life of St Francis | 39 |
THE OFFICIAL IMAGE IN STONE THE BASILICA OF ST FRANCIS ATASSISI | 51 |
Progress of the building and its date | 56 |
Furnishing the Basilica | 62 |
The Inspiration of the Basilica | 64 |
Gregory IX | 65 |
Innocent IV | 66 |
Sources of inspiration | 68 |
The functions of the double church | 70 |
Conclusionthe image | 73 |
THE AUTHORITY OF ST FRANCIS EXPOSITIONS OF THE RULE | 77 |
The Exposition of the Four Masters | 78 |
Hugh of Digne | 81 |
The bull Ordinem vestrum | 86 |
The sources and characteristics of Hughs Exposition of the Rule | 91 |
The bull Exiit qui seminat | 96 |
REMINISCENCES THE CONVERGENCE OF UNOFFICIAL AND OFFICIAL IMAGES IN WRITING | 102 |
The writings of Leo Rufino and Angelo | 104 |
The image of St Francis as presented by Leo Rufino and Angelo | 117 |
The Anonymous of Perugia | 127 |
Thomas of Celanos Second Life of St Francis | 138 |
The Legend of the Three Companions | 147 |
The image of St Francis presented by the Legend of the Three Companions | 149 |
THE OFFICIAL IMAGE IN SPEECH AND WRITING | 218 |
St Bonaventure | 231 |
The Legenda Maior OF St Bonaventure | 242 |
The Miracles of St Francis | 269 |
THE OFFICIAL VISUAL IMAGE THE DECORATION OF THE BASILICA | 280 |
The decoration of the Lower Church | 281 |
Virgin and child enthroned with angels and St Francis | 302 |
The decoration of the Upper Church | 304 |
The stained glass windows in the Upper Church | 307 |
The decoration of apse and transepts | 332 |
Cimabue | 342 |
The four Evangelists | 344 |
The decoration of the sanctuary walls | 353 |
The decoration of the nave of the Upper Church | 365 |
The St Francis Cycle | 378 |
Dating the decoration of the nave | 415 |
Nicholas IV | 439 |
THE REDISCOVERY OF ST FRANCIS BODY | 454 |
Reconstruction of St Francis interment | 464 |
ANGELA OF FOLIGNOS IMAGE OF ST FRANCIS | 472 |
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