The Vision of Porziuncola

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After Ludovico Carracci
The Vision of Porziuncola
oil on canvas, unframed
110.2 x 85.8 cm.

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Lot Essay

After the picture in the Prado, Madrid, formerly regarded as a work of Agostino Carracci (see A. Brogi, Ludovico Carracci, Bologna, 2001, I, pp. 188-9, no. 75; II, fig. 167). The subject refers to the forgiveness promised to Saint Francis, in a vision of Christ and the Virgin, for those who repent of their sins at the Chapel at Porziuncola, an Indulgence that was confirmed by Pope Honorius III in 1216.

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