Eliza Allen Starr

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Eliza Allen Starr (1824—1901) was an American artist, art critic, teacher, and lecturer. She was known throughout the United States for her books about Catholic art.[1] She lectured throughout the country.[2] A convert form Unitarianism to Catholicism,[1] in 1885 she became the first woman to be awarded the Laetare Medal, the most prestigious honour given to American Catholics.[3] Pope Leo XIII sent her a medallion after she wrote The Three Archangels and the Guardian Angels in Art.[2] She was the aunt of and a large influence on Ellen Gates Starr.[1]

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Works by Eliza Allen Starr include:

  • Songs of a Lifetime
  • Patron Saints
  • Pilgrims and Shrines
  • Isabella of Castile
  • What we see
  • Ode to Christopher Columbus
  • Christmas-tide
  • Christian art in our own age
  • The Seven Dolours of the Virgin Mary
  • Literature of Christian Art
  • The Three Keys to the Camera della Segnatura in the Vatican
  • Art in the Chicago Churches
  • Woman's Work in Art
  • The Three Archangels and the Guardian Angels in Art

[edit] References

  1. ^ a b c Bissell Brown, Victoria, 2007, The Education of Jane Addams, University of Pennsylvania Press, ISBN 081221952X.
  2. ^ a b Eliza Allen Starr, Catholic Encyclopedia.
  3. ^ Eliza Allen Starr Papers, University of Notre Dame.

This article incorporates text from the public-domain Catholic Encyclopedia of 1913.

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