St Clare Art Photos

St Clare (1194-1253) born in Assisi to a noble family, she refused an arranged marriage and ran away from home to St Francis from whom she received a nun's habit. Forcible efforts by her family to bring back Clare and her sister were unsuccessful. She founded the Poor Clare Order.
Symbol: Monstrance.

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Bishop of Assisi Giving a Palm to St Clare tempera on oak from Nuremberg, Germany at The Cloisters. New York, NY.Death of Saint Clare painting by Master of Heiligenkreuz of Austria at National Gallery of Art. Washington, DC.Stained glass windows by Guillaume Barbe of St Clare, a Bishop, St Mary Magdalene, & St Anne teaching the virgin at Rouen Cathedral. Rouen, France.
Bishop of Assisi Giving a Palm to St Clare tempera on oak (c1360) from Nuremberg, Germany at The Cloisters. New York, NY.Death of Saint Clare painting (c1400-10) by Master of Heiligenkreuz of Austria at National Gallery of Art. Washington, DC.Stained glass windows (1465-70) by Guillaume Barbe of St Clare, a Bishop, St Mary Magdalene, & St Anne teaching the virgin at Rouen Cathedral. Rouen, France.
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