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

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-consorts during this period through the patronage of Queen Maria, consort of Charles II of Anjou. The church is also 'a rare example of aristocratic convent architecture in Italy' and of an endowed ...

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