Approval of the Rules of the Franciscan Order by Pope Innocent III in 1209
Livio Agresti
n.d.
Medium
Pen and brown ink, with brush and brown wash, heightened with lead white gouache, over incising and black chalk, on cream laid paper
Dimensions
Sight: 28.8 × 20.3 cm (11 3/8 × 8 in.)
Classification
pen and ink drawings
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
223802
Rights
Public Domain
About this artwork
Saint Francis kneels before Pope Innocent III as he sanctioned the establishment of the Franciscan order by his gesture. By the time of the Counter-Reformation, these were cornerstone traditions that reformers such as Cardinal Carlo Borromeo upheld in their reevaluation of the Roman Catholic faith after the Council of Trent.