Tuscan School, circa 1420
PROPERTY FROM A BELGIAN COLLECTION
Tuscan School, circa 1420

Scenes depicting the virtues of Poor Clares: a cassone panel

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Tuscan School, circa 1420
Scenes depicting the virtues of Poor Clares: a cassone panel
oil on panel
12 7/8 x 57 3/8 in. (32.8 x 145.8 cm.)

Lot Essay

This iconographically unusual cassone panel was presumably made on the occasion of a nun taking her vows, and demonstrates the four vows of poverty, chastity, obedience and enclosure under which the Order of Saint Clare lived. No other panel of this type would seem to be recorded.

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