Artibus et Historiae no. 81 (XLI)
2020, ISSN 0391-9064Up
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TIZIANA FRANCO - Artistic Evidence from Female Convents in Verona in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries (pp. 49–61)
Few physical traces remain of the many female convents founded in Verona in the Middle Ages, and equally, little evidence survives of artistic activity undertaken there during the first centuries of their existence. This paper attempts to provide a summary of what is known of such activity in the period before the mid-fifteenth century, with special reference to works of art certainly or probably commissioned by a nun, and containing her image.