STUDIO OF BERNARDO STROZZI | Saint Francis of Assisi

The prototype by Bernardo Strozzi is today in the Palazzo Rosso in Genoa.¹ In 1598, at the age of 17, Strozzi joined a Capuchin monastery, a reformist offshoot of the Franciscan order. The original painting was one of many works by the artist which depict Saint Francis of Assisi, whose life and deeds formed the inspiration of the order.

1 Inv. no. P.R.54; see C. Manzitti, Bernardo Strozzi, Turin 2013, p. 79, cat. no. 11, reproduced.