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Giotto di Bondone (?) Miracle of the Crib at Greccio, c.1290-1300, fresco, Upper Church, San Francesco, Assisi. Photo: public domain.

Giotto di Bondone (?) Miracle of the Crib at Greccio, c.1290-1300, fresco, Upper Church, San Francesco, Assisi. Photo: public domain.

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This paper offers a thematic study of how a contemporary female audience may have encountered the direct gaze in Italian religious paintings of the mid- Quattrocento. Specifically it contrasts two works by Fra Angelico (born c. 1387-1400, died 1455) - the publicly viewed San Marco Altarpiece (The Virgin and Child Enthroned with Angels and Saints c....