FIGURE 11.2 Giambattista Tiepolo. Saint Francis of Assisi Receiving the Stigmata, 1767-69. Oil on canvas. Madrid, Museo Nacional del Prado. All rights reserved © Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid. whom the papacy under Benedict XIV Lambertini altars were probably in tune with the order's spiritual (r. 1740-58) vigorously opposed because of her perceived attitudes, if not with those of the king himself. mystical excess (on these debates, see Rosa 1999, 47-68). 3 For the representation of Francis of Assisi from the late That Joaqum de Eleta, the Alcantarine in charge of the sixteenth century on, see Pamela Askew, "The Angelic Aranjuez commission, was a great supporter of Maria de Consolation of St. Francis of Assisi in Post-Tridentine Jesus de Agreda's cause (Whistler 1998, 81, 8511.39) indi- Italian Painting" Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld cates that the emotive, visionary subjects of Tiepolo's Institutes 32 (1969): 280-306. 4 Entry by Catherine Whistler in Christiansen 1996, 196. SAINT FRANCIS OF ASSISI RECEIVING THE STIGMATA 75