The Church of Santa Maria Donna Regina: Art, Iconography and Patronage in Fourteenth-Century Naples.(Brief Article)(Book Review)

From: Contemporary Review | Date: July 1, 2005 | Copyright information

The Church of Santa Maria Donna Regina: Art, Iconography and Patronage in Fourteenth-Century Naples. Janis Elliott and Cordelia Warr, editors. Ashgate. [pounds sterling]55.00. xxi + 234 pages. ISBN 0-7546-3477-9. The church of Santa Maria Donna Regina in Naples, which dates from the end of the thirteenth and beginning of the fourteenth centuries, is one of the great convent churches built during the Angevin rule (1266-1435). Its history is an introduction to the role of queen-conso...

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