The Franciscans and Art Patronage in Late Medieval Italy

Louise Bourdua is an Associate Professor in the Department of the History of Art at the University of Warwick. She has contributed articles on aspects of Mendicant art and patronage to The Burlington Magazine and Papers of the British School at Rome, among other publications.

• 1. The Franciscans, poverty, property and benefaction; 2. San Fermo Maggiore, Verona: a northern response to Assisi?; 3. San Lorenzo in Vicenza: the friars, the donor, the procurators and the artist; 4. Sant'Antonio in Padua.

Reviews of the hardback: '… no one interested in the art of this period, or in patronage in all periods, can afford to ignore this fine and important book.' John Richards, Journal of the Scottish Society for Art History