{"id":405,"date":"2017-04-10T11:51:48","date_gmt":"2017-04-10T10:51:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elenisicons.co.uk\/ei\/?p=405"},"modified":"2017-04-30T17:56:24","modified_gmt":"2017-04-30T16:56:24","slug":"st-francis-of-assisi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.elenisicons.co.uk\/ei\/icon\/st-francis-of-assisi\/","title":{"rendered":"St Francis of Assisi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.elenisicons.co.uk\/ei\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/francis-crop-1.jpg\" alt=\"St Francis of Assisi\" width=\"50%\" style=\"border: 1px solid black;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This image of St Francis is taken from the famous &#8216;Bardi Dossal&#8217;, the massive gable-topped <em>Vita<\/em> panel in the main Franciscan Church of Santa Croce, Florence and is often attributed to Coppo di Marcovaldo, circa 1263.<\/p>\n<p>It was one of the earliest\u00a0<em>Vita<\/em> panels in Europe to depict a full-length saint, surrounded by 20 scenes from his life and <em>post-mortum <\/em>miracles. (The format being based on Byzantine models such as the Vita icon of <em>St Katherine of Alexandria, <\/em>St Catherine&#8217;s Monastery, Sinai.)<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_423\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-423\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium-something wp-image-423\" src=\"http:\/\/www.elenisicons.co.uk\/ei\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Bardi_500px-200x260.jpg\" alt=\"Icon Adventures Students visiting the St Francis vita panel\" width=\"200\" height=\"260\" style=\"border: 1px solid black;\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.elenisicons.co.uk\/ei\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Bardi_500px-200x260.jpg 200w, http:\/\/www.elenisicons.co.uk\/ei\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Bardi_500px-231x300.jpg 231w, http:\/\/www.elenisicons.co.uk\/ei\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Bardi_500px-260x338.jpg 260w, http:\/\/www.elenisicons.co.uk\/ei\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Bardi_500px.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-423\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Icon Adventures Students visiting the St Francis Vita panel, Bardi Chapel, S Croce, Florence<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Previously, only Christ had been shown in such a way, which confirms Francis\u2019s role as <em>alter Christus. <\/em>It is thought\u00a0that the Bardi Dossal influenced the subject matter and iconography in some of scenes from the St Francis Cycle in the Upper Church of the Basilica di San Francesco, Assisi.<\/p>\n<p>This panel was painted in Assisi as part of a 12-day icon painting pilgrimage based in the historic centre of Assisi.<\/p>\n<p>For dates of upcoming retreats in Assisi 2018, please visit the sister website: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iconadventures.co.uk\/apainting.htm\" target=\"_blank\">www.iconadventures.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This image of St Francis is taken from the famous &#8216;Bardi Dossal&#8217;, the massive gable-topped Vita panel in the main Franciscan Church of Santa Croce, Florence and is often attributed to Coppo di Marcovaldo, circa 1263. It was one of the earliest\u00a0Vita panels in Europe to depict a full-length saint, surrounded by 20 scenes from &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.elenisicons.co.uk\/ei\/icon\/st-francis-of-assisi\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;St Francis of Assisi&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[7,5,6],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.elenisicons.co.uk\/ei\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.elenisicons.co.uk\/ei\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.elenisicons.co.uk\/ei\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.elenisicons.co.uk\/ei\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.elenisicons.co.uk\/ei\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=405"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"http:\/\/www.elenisicons.co.uk\/ei\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":414,"href":"http:\/\/www.elenisicons.co.uk\/ei\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405\/revisions\/414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.elenisicons.co.uk\/ei\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.elenisicons.co.uk\/ei\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.elenisicons.co.uk\/ei\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}