essentz:Jan Van Eyck, Saint Francis of Assisi Receiving the Stigmata, 1430-32. Philadelphia Museum o
essentz:Jan Van Eyck, Saint Francis of Assisi Receiving the Stigmata, 1430-32. Philadelphia Museum of Art.This piece is much smaller than expected — about 5x7 inches — but the detail is exquisite. You can ask the guard for a magnifying glass. Then when you look at it up close, you see tiny human figures on a beach in the background, in front of the castle. And to think, it was done in 1430-32, at the beginning of the use of oil paints. The piece is oil on vellum. -- source link