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Fresco of Saint Clare and nuns of her order, Chapel of San Damiano, Assisi. The Poor Clares, officially the Order of Saint Clare (Latin: Ordo Sanctae Clarae), originally referred to as the Order of Poor Ladies, and also known as the Clarisses or Clarissines, the Minoresses, the Franciscan Clarist Order, and the Second Order of Saint Francis, are members of an enclosed order of nuns in the ...
Portrait of Infanta Isabella Clara Eugenia (1625) by Rubens. The Portrait of Infanta Isabella Clara Eugenia is a painting by Rubens of Isabella Clara Eugenia.It is dated to 1625 and shows her in the habit of the Poor Clares, which she assumed on 22 October 1621 after the death of her husband Archduke Albert of Austria.
Clare wrote their Rule of Life, the first set of monastic guidelines known to have been written by a woman. Following her death, the order she founded was renamed in her honor as the Order of Saint Clare, commonly referred to today as the Poor Clares. Her feast day is on 11 August.
'Madonna of Graces with Two Saints is a 1522 fresco painting by Perugino. Its central figure shows Mary as Our Lady of Graces, flanked by Antony the Great and Antony of Padua. It is in a side chapel of the church of Sant’Agnese, the Poor Clares convent in Perugia. It was commissioned a year before the painter's death by Eufrasia and Teodora ...
Colette of Corbie, PCC (13 January 1381 – 6 March 1447) was a French abbess and the foundress of the Colettine Poor Clares, a reform branch of the Order of Saint Clare, better known as the Poor Clares. She is honored as a saint in the Catholic Church.
The painting was commissioned by the Poor Clares of the convent of Santa Chiara in Florence. Highly admired by its contemporaries, the work inspired other paintings such as Fra Bartolomeo's Pietà and Andrea del Sarto's Luco Pietà, both in the same collection. Detail of Joseph of Arimatea.
The image was originally painted by Carlo Maratta, who gave it to a young noblewoman, Chiara Isabella Fornari, who later became Abbess of the Convent of the Poor Clares in Todi, Italy. [1] The image, was venerated in Todi under the Marian title "Refugium peccatorum" , (English: “Refuge of Sinners”).
It was the first community of Poor Clares of the Colettine Reform to be re-established in England after the Reformation. Reduced to four nuns, the house closed in January 2011 and the nuns dispersed to other communities of the order. [4] [5] In 1857 Poor Clares from Bruges established a monastery at Notting Hill, London, designed by Henry Clutton.