THIJS, Pieter
(b. ca. 1624, Antwerpen, d. 1677, Antwerpen)

St Francis in Portiuncula

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Oil on canvas, 250 x 264 cm
Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp

St Francis of Assisi was followed by a considerable number of disciples, who congregated in Portiuncula, a small hermitage in the foothills of Assisi where Francis spent most of his life, and where he died in 1226.