A work made of woodcut in black on paper.

Saint Francis Receiving the Stigmata

1535/45

Nicolò Boldrini (Italian, c. 1500–1566) after Titian (Italian, c. 1488-1576)

Italy

Technical developments in printmaking techniques allowed artists to reproduce the tonal complexities of painted compositions. In this woodcut after a design by Titian, the cutter accomplished a lively sense of differentiated surfaces through the use of graphic patterns. The dynamic lines of the landscape serve to heighten Francis’s gesture of religious rapture.

Woodcut in black on paper