Miracle of the Crib at Greccio

Name: Marco Yu Ming Chan Date: 6 September, 2012 Professor Kate Dimitrova The Work of Art. The Miracle of the Crib at Greccio (Legend of St. Francis-13. Foundation of the Crib at Greccio), Portrait by Giotto Di Bondone, 1297-1300, church of St. Francis, Assisi, Italy. Book Resources Cynthia Ho, Beth A. Mulvaney, and John K. Downey. Discovering Saint Francis in writing and workmanship. New York, Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. The three writers made and altered this book a major assortment of papers, which they are about St.Francis, and some fine arts and messages about him, with the information, apparatuses and methods now-a-days, to contemplate his life in an alternate view. William R. Cook. The specialty of the Franciscan Order in Italy. Leiden ; Boston : Brill 2005. In spite of the fact that the book isn't straightforwardly about â€Å"The Miracle of the Crib at Greecio†, It’s pretty much all the works identified with St Francis. There are additionally some article that di scussions about this bit of work, and its distinctive foundation. It’s joined by papers from The United States and The Great Britain, considering franciscan workmanship in late medieval and early Renaissance Italy.Essays Rosenthal Erwin, â€Å"The Crib of Greccio and Franciscan Realism† The Art Bulletin (Mar 1954): 57-60. This article starts with an exploration in 1926, clarifying the distinctions of the perspective on the connections between St. Francis, Nature and Art when the principal quarter of the twentieth century. It discusses the old thought of how St. Francis regarded and educated nature (creatures) and thinks it’s all associated with God, and how some fine arts like â€Å"The Cribs of Greecio† are so unique and another understanding of his effect on arts.Ursula Schlegel, â€Å"The Christchild as Devotional Image in Medieval Italian Sculpture: A Contribution to Ambrogio Lorenzetti Studies† The Art Bulletin (March 1970): 1-10. This article presents and analyze a few bits of works of art that are identified with St. Francis itself and the Christ. Some of them made St Francis to be the â€Å"second Christ† and some of them are indicating the image that he’s holding the Christ (the supernatural occurrence in Greecio).It rambles about what the connection between those fine arts and the piece â€Å"Christchild†, yet at the same time, there are a few informations and foundation about â€Å"The Miracle of the bunk at Greecio†. Sites N/A. â€Å"Saint Francis cycle in the Upper Church of San Francesco at Assisi† wikimedia hall, March 2012.