A St Francis by Botticelli in the National Gallery.

Apollo | July 1, 2003| | Copyright

A small panel in the National Gallery shows St Francis full-length against a gold background, flanked by music-making angels (Fig. 1). The panel entered the collection in 1858 as a work by Filippino Lippi, but was reassigned to an anonymous follower of Botticelli in Martin Davies's Catalogue of the Earlier Italian Schools, first published in 1951. (1) It was formerly thought to date from 1492 or shortly afterwards, since this date was included in an inscription that appeared on the fictive stone ledge in the foreground. During cleaning in 1940, this inscription was found not ...

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