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Thread #104264 Message #2132718
Posted By: Bee
24-Aug-07 - 11:07 AM
Thread Name: BS: Eyeworm: Looking up St. Francis painting
Subject: BS: Eyeworm: Looking up St. Francis painting
If having a song stuck in your head is an earworm, then having a painting stuck there must be an eyeworm.
In 1983, I was in Boston, and I saw a painting, I think in the Boston MFA (but couldda been another gallery), of Saint Francis of Assisi receiving the stigmata. This involved a horizontal floating in the air Jesus-on-the-cross sending what appear to be red laser beams at the kneeling saint. It was a very large, early European oil painting, and it was in the front foyer/hall of the gallery.
Cana anyone identify this painting and its creator for me? It's driving me nuts trying to remember the artist.