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Spirituality. Jacopa de’ Settesoli: wealth followed the Poverello

Jacopa Frangipane de’ Settesoli, also known as “frate Jacopa” (Rome, circa 1190 Assisi, circa 1239) in a painting by Simone Martini. The woman is recognizable by the seven suns that surround her head – WikiCommons In the lower basilica of San Francesco, in Assisi, she is buried next to the first followers of the Poverello … Read more

The ‘Poverello’ that captivated El Greco and Zurbarán

by Donna Dunlap

Devotion –and passion– meant that, in full confinement, the Franciscan convent Luis Esteban Larra Lomas (Cañizar de Argaño, Burgos, 1964) began to count the paintings that the Prado Museum has with Saint Francis of Assisi as the protagonist or, if anything, in the company, for example, of Jesus or the Virgin Mary. “I would dare … Read more