Composition dans un cercle

Sophie Taeuber-Arp, Printed by Fequet et Baudler

1937; published 1957

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Saint Francis stands in his brown habit, displaying the stigmata or marks of the five wounds of Christ's crucifixion. An unidentified bishop saint stands behind him.
Les Amans Surpris, After Francois Boucher, Engraved by R. Guillard, engraving
View is from just behind the Horse Tamers statues (before obelisk in place), looking across the piazza (now called Piazza del Quirinale) toward the Palazzo Pontificio (now called Quirinal Palace), and down Via Pia.
In this narrow, vertical painting, Saint Augustine stands holding a book and a crosier. Above his head hovers the angel Gabriel, who is speaking to the Virgin Mary in the companion painting of Saint Benedict.