If you have been to the site, you will see that they don't seem to know much about the picture, except that the nuns appear to be wearing the habit of the Poor Clares of the Franciscan order. Also, there is a related work in the Hessisches Landesmuseum of Darmstadt. That work was formerly in the collection of Conte Giacomo Carrara, Bergamo. Bergamo seems to be a town in Italy that you run across sometimes in old lace books. I am unsure what its lace tradition is. It is near Milan. Not that this may in anyway be relevant to the picture. Interestingly, there is no mention of what the nuns might be doing in the picture. The picture is located in a period room, and in a place where it is very hard to see it clearly, and it is a dark picture to begin with. I take people to it all the time, but have never seen it up close enough to figure out what they were actually doing with their bolster pillows. Zoomification has added a whole new dimension to enjoying art. Devon **************Access 350+ FREE radio stations anytime from anywhere on the web. Get the Radio Toolbar! (http://toolbar.aol.com/aolradio/download.html?ncid=emlcntusdown00000003)
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