A Franciscan Monk Preaching

ca. 1515-1525 (Renaissance)

58.5 cm 38.2 cm 0.8 cm

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Within a spacious and unadorned hall, a Franciscan monk preaches to a group of ecclesiastics and laymen. In accordance with Renaissance social hierarchies, women are seated on the ground while men are seated on benches or standing. The monk looming over the crowd from a simple...

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Don Marcello Massarenti Collection, Rome [date and mode of acquisition unknown] [1881 catalogue: no. 30; 1897 catalogue: no. 78]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1902, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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