Nicholas Lochoff (d.1948) after

Simone Martini (Sienese, c.1284-1344)
ST. CLAIRE

original (about 1325) in the Lower Church of San Francesco, Assisi Fresco

St. Claire was the founder of the Order of Poor Claires, a female order which followed the strict ideals of the Franciscans. Claire wears the plain gray habit of her order. St. Claire was an important supporter of St. Francis, and it was in an olive grove near her abbey that he composed his "Canticles of the Sun." The original of this work was part of a cycle that included St. Francis, St. Louis of Toulouse, and St. Elizabeth of Hungary. This copy, showing the effects of time on the medium, should be compared to Lochoff’s other rendition of the same painting in this Cloister, which shows the fresco as Lochoff imagined it looked in its original state.