Master of Saint Francis, active (between 1250–1280)
• Was an anonymous Italian painter.
• The Master of Saint Francis was given this name by art historian Henry Thode in 1885 and is based on the title of a panel painting, St. Francis with Angels in the Basilica of Saint Mary of the Angels in Assisi.
• His work embodies an important aspect of the Italo-Byzantine style.
• Master of Saint Francis was a painter of frescoes and panels and, perhaps, designer of stained glass in the district around Perugia.
• Much of the work attributed to him was part of the early phase in the decoration of Basilica of San Francesco of Assisi.
