Notable Changes in Medieval Images of »Saint« Humility after Counter-Reformation Documents.

The article discusses the pictorial representation of medieval Saint Humility of Faenza (Rosanese Negusanti), the founder of the female order of the Vallombrosans, during the Middle Ages. It provides a biographical outline of the life of this 13th-century woman religious, notes her characterization by contemporaries as possessing miraculous powers, and relates attempts to advocate for her canonization. The images of her discussed in detail include a polyptych designed for Vallombrosan convent of San Giovanni Evangelista by Italian painter Pietro Lorenzetti, which was later transferred to the convent of San Salvi, as well as several no longer extant paintings described in Italian manuscripts from the 16th through 18th centuries.