Beaute de Pauvrete: L'Art chez les clarisses de France
Softcover
1994 · Paris
Paris: Centre Culturel du Pantheon, 1994. Softcover. VG- (Ex-library with spine label, pages lightly tanned at edges.). Yellow & illus. wraps, 223 pp., many BW & color illus. Text is in French. Issued in conjunction with a 1994 exhibition in Paris, with a focus on the "Beauty and Poverty" of the religious order of Poor Ladies, now known as the Order of Saint Clare. Includes artwork depicting Saint Clare and her followers, as well as religious artifacts used by the Order throughout the centuries. An interesting manifestation of art in religion and vice versa. (Inventory #: 136086)