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The list Nuns and art includes Maria Innocentia Hummel, Wendy Beckett, Edith Pfau, Mary Stanisia and Esther Newport. The list consists of 22 members.
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    Maria Innocentia Hummel
    Franciscan Sister and artist
    Maria Innocentia Hummel
    Overview: Sister Maria Innocentia Hummel, O.S.F., (21 May 1909 - 6 November 1946) was a famous German Franciscan Sister and artist. She is noted for the artwork which became the popular Hummel figurines.
    Date of birth: 21 May 1909
    Date of death: 6 November 1946
    Age: 37 (age at death)
    Nationality: German
    Occupation: Artist
    Gender: Female
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    20th-century German women artists 219T
    20th-century deaths from tuberculosis 669T
    20th-century women artists 4,649T
  • 2.

    Wendy Beckett
    British hermit and art expert; former Religious Sister
    Wendy Beckett
    Overview: Wendy Mary Beckett (25 February 1930 – 26 December 2018), better known as Sister Wendy, was a British religious sister and art historian who became well known internationally during the 1990s when she ...
    Date of birth: 25 February 1930
    Date of death: 26 December 2018
    Age: 88 (age at death)
    Nationality: British
    Occupation: Personality
    Gender: Female
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    People from Quidenham 5T
    British women television presenters 79T
    2018 deaths 9,212T
  • 3.

    Esther Newport
    American artist
    Esther Newport
    Overview: Sister Esther Newport, S.P., (1901–1986) was an American painter, sculptor and art educator who founded the Catholic Art Association and served as the founding editor of the Christian Social Art Quarterly ...
    Date of birth: 17 May 1901
    Date of death: 9 July 1986
    Age: 85 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Artist
    Gender: Female
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    20th-century Christian nuns 359T
    Catholics from Indiana 76T
    20th-century American women artists 2,803T
  • 4.

    Edith Pfau
    American artist
    Edith Pfau
    Overview: Sister Edith Pfau, S.P., (1915–2001) was an American painter, sculptor and art educator known for her religious works and commissions.
    Date of birth: 15 July 1915
    Date of death: 14 December 2001
    Age: 86 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Artist
    Gender: Female
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    20th-century Christian nuns 359T
    Catholics from Indiana 76T
    20th-century American women artists 2,803T
  • 5.

    Orsola Maddalena Caccia
    Italian artist (1596–1676)
    Overview: Orsola Maddalena Caccia, born Theodora Caccia (1596–1676) was an Italian mannerist painter and Catholic nun. She painted religious images, altarpieces, and still lifes.
    Date of birth: 1596
    Date of death: 1676
    Age: 79 (age at death)
    Nationality: Italian
    Occupation: Painter
    Gender: Female
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    17th-century Italian women artists 31T
    18th-century Italian women artists 46T
    17th-century women artists 116T
  • 6.

    Mary Stanisia
    American artist
    Overview: Sister Maria Stanisia, S.S.N.D., (May 4, 1878 – January 28, 1967) was an American Catholic nun, artist and painter, member of the School Sisters of Notre Dame.
    Date of birth: 4 May 1878
    Date of death: 28 January 1967
    Age: 88 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Artist
    Gender: Female
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    Catholics from Wisconsin 141T
    20th-century Christian nuns 359T
    20th-century American women artists 2,803T
  • 7.

    Catherine of Bologna
    Christian saint
    Catherine of Bologna
    Overview: Catherine of Bologna [Caterina de' Vigri] (8 September 1413 – 9 March 1463) was an Italian Poor Clare nun, writer, teacher, mystic, artist, and saint. The patron saint of artists and against temptations ...
    Date of birth: 8 September 1413
    Date of death: 9 March 1462
    Age: 48 (age at death)
    Nationality: Italian
    Occupation: Writer
    Gender: Female
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    15th-century Italian Roman Catholic religious sisters and nuns 16T
    Nobility from Bologna 18T
    15th-century Italian women writers 11T
  • 8.

    Suor Barbara Ragnoni
    Italian artist (1448–1533)
    Suor Barbara Ragnoni
    Overview: Suor Barbara Ragnoni (1448–1533) was an Italian artist for whom only one work remains extant.
    Date of birth: 1448
    Date of death: 1533
    Age: 84 (age at death)
    Nationality: Italian
    Occupation: Painter
    Gender: Female
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    15th-century women artists 11T
    15th-century Italian painters 343T
    Italian women painters 155T
  • 9.

    Maria Eufrasia della Croce
    Italian painter
    Overview: Maria Eufrasia della Croce (1597–1676) was a nun and artist. She was born Flavia Benedetti in Rome; she became a nun in 1628 and painted many works for her Roman convent of S. Giuseppe a Capo le Case of ...
    Date of birth: 1597
    Date of death: 1676
    Age: 78 (age at death)
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    Wendy Solling
    Australian Anglican religious sister, priest, and sculptor (1926–2002)
    Wendy Solling
    Overview: Wendy Hope Solling (1926 – 20 January 2002) was an Australian sculptor, Anglican Franciscan nun, and one of the earliest women ordained in the Anglican Church of Australia.
    Date of birth: 1926
    Date of death: 20 January 2002
    Age: 75 (age at death)
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    20th-century Australian women artists 350T
    Australian women sculptors 31T
    Artists from New South Wales 14T
  • 11.

    Maria Angelica Razzi
    Italian sculptor
    Overview: Maria Angelica Razzi was an Italian sixteenth century nun and sculptor at Santa Caterina da Siena in Florence. She primarily worked in clay to make devotional terracotta figures.
    Occupation: Sculptor
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  • 12.

    Maria Giberne
    French-English artist and convert to Roman Catholicism
    Overview: Maria Rosina Giberne (1802−1885) was a French-English artist and convert to Roman Catholicism.
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    Julia Charlotte Mengs
    German painter
    Julia Charlotte Mengs
    Overview: Julia Charlotte Mengs (c. 1730 – after 1806) was a German painter.
    Date of birth: 1730
    Date of death: 1806
    Age: 75 (age at death)
    Nationality: German
    Occupation: Painter
    Gender: Female
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    19th-century German Roman Catholic nuns 14T
    18th-century German Roman Catholic nuns 2T
    18th-century German women artists 29T
  • 14.

    Isabella Piccini
    Italian artist and nun
    Overview: Isabella Piccini (born Elisabetta Piccini 1644-1732) was an Italian artist and nun. She worked in the mediums of etching, engraving, and illustration.
    Date of birth: 1644
    Date of death: 29 April 1732
    Age: 87 (age at death)
    Nationality: Italian
    Occupation: Engraver
    Gender: Female
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    Overview: Suor Prudenza Fiammetta Cambi (died 1601) was a Florentine nun and artist during the sixteenth century at Santa Caterina da Siena in Florence, Italy. She has been identified as one of Plautilla Nelli’s ...
    Date of death: 1601
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    Teresa Berenice Vitelli
    Italian artist (1706 – 1729)
    Teresa Berenice Vitelli
    Overview: Teresa Berenice Vitelli, also known as Suor Veronica, (active 1706 – 1729) was an 18th-century Italian painter.
    Date of birth: 1706
    Date of death: 1729
    Age: 22 (age at death)
    Nationality: Italian
    Occupation: Painter
    Gender: Female
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  • 17.

    Anna Vittoria Dolara
    Italian painter (1754–1827)
    Anna Vittoria Dolara
    Overview: Suor or Sister Anna Vittoria Dolara (1754–1827) was an Italian Dominican nun in Rome; she is known for her piety, poetry, and painting.
    Date of birth: 1754
    Date of death: 1827
    Age: 72 (age at death)
    Nationality: Italian
    Occupation: Painter
    Gender: Female
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    19th-century Italian women artists 50T
    19th-century women artists 1,224T
    19th-century Italian painters 1,353T
  • 18.

    Karen Boccalero
    American nun and artist
    Karen Boccalero
    Overview: Karen Boccalero (May 19, 1933 – June 24, 1997) was an American nun, fine artist, and founder and former director of Self-Help Graphics & Art.
    Date of birth: 19 May 1933
    Date of death: 24 June 1997
    Age: 64 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Artist
    Gender: Female
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    20th-century Christian nuns 359T
    Catholics from Arizona 25T
    Catholics from California 269T
  • 19.

    Plautilla Nelli
    Italian artist (1524–1588)
    Plautilla Nelli
    Overview: Sister Plautilla Nelli (1524–1588) was a self-taught nun-artist and the first ever known female Renaissance painter of Florence. She was a nun of the Dominican convent of St. Catherine of Siena located ...
    Date of birth: 1523
    Date of death: 1587
    Age: 63 (age at death)
    Nationality: Italian
    Occupation: Painter
    Gender: Female
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    15th-century women artists 11T
    16th-century women artists 22T
    16th-century Italian painters 879T
  • 20.

    Eleonora Bargili
    Italian artist
    Overview: Eleonora Bargili was an Italian pastellist active during the eighteenth century. A nun at the convent of Santa Maria della Neve in Pistoia, she created an altarpiece of Francis de Sales for that insti ...
    Nationality: Italian
    Occupation: Painter
    Gender: Female
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