1460
ink
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Saint Francis of Assisi is a 1460 ink by German 15th Century, a Renaissance work, held at National Gallery of Art.
This image shows a simple, blocky scene of two figures in a garden. One person is kneeling, holding a bird on their hand, while the other stands nearby with hands clasped. The background has rough trees, flowers, and a fence. The colors are flat and bright—reds, greens, and golds—applied by hand over the carved lines. The artist used a woodcut technique, where the image is carved into wood and then inked. This made the lines sharp and the shapes clean, like a printed picture. Next, look up woodcut to see how this printing method worked.
This 15th-century German artist carved vivid religious scenes into metal and wood, then hand-painted them in bright, symbolic colors.
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