Master of Saint Francis

The Master of Saint Francis is the name given to an anonymous Italian painter active in Umbria between about 1250 and 1280, working in a style that blends Byzantine iconography with the emerging naturalism of central Italian painting. The art historian Henry Thode coined the name in 1885 after a panel of Saint Francis with Angels in the Basilica of Saint Mary of the Angels in Assisi. Much of the artist attributed output is tied to the decoration of the Basilica of San Francesco in Assisi, including fresco cycles drawn from the Passion of Christ and the life of Saint Francis. The painter, possibly trained in Pisa, is also thought to have designed stained glass, and the surviving work shows a distinctive combination of Byzantine pictorial conventions with Western decorative color and pattern. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/