Her self-taught style incorporated motifs from needlework and devotional prints. Some saints' images, interwoven with text and rubrics, display an idiosyncratic, inventive iconography also found in German nuns' artworks (nönnenarbeiten). The breviary and its images surely served a didactic function within the convent community. Other panel paintings and manuscripts attributed to her include the Madonna and Child (nicknamed the Madonna del Pomo) in the Cappella Della Santa, a possible portrait or self-portrait in the autograph copy of the Sette Armi Spirituali, a Redeemer, and another Madonna and Child in her chapel. Recently one scholar has tried to question certain attributions. A drawing of a Man of Sorrows or Resurrected Christ found in a miscellany of lauds (Ms. 35 no.4, Archivio Generale Arcivescovile, Bologna) has also been attributed to her. Catherine is significant as a woman artist who articulated an aesthetic philosophy. She explained that although it took precious time, the purpose of her religious art was "to increase devotion for herself and others". References Sources Further reading Babler, Ernst Z., Katharina (Vigri) von Bologna (1413–1463), Leben und Schriften, Fachstelle Franzikanishe Forschung, Munster, 2012 Bartoli, Marco. Caterina, la Santa di Bologna, Bologna: Ed. Dehone, 2003. Chadwick, Whitney. Women, Art and Society, London: Thames and Hudson, 1994 Evangelisti, Silvia. Nuns: a history of convent life, 1450–1700. Oxford University Press, 2007. Fortunati, Vera, Jordano Pomeroy & Claudio Strinati, Italian Women Artists from Renaissance to Baroque, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D. C., 2009. Guerro, P. Angel Rodriguez, Vita di Santa Caterina da Bologna. Bologna, 1996. Harris, Anne Sutherland and Linda Nochlin, Women Artists: 1550–1950, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Knopf, New York, 1976 Morina, Giulio. Vita della Beata Caterina da Bologna. Descritta in pittura, Ed. Pazzini, 2002 Pomata, Gianna. "Malpighi and the holy body: medical experts and miraculous evidence in seventeenth-century Italy", Renaissance Studies 21, no. 4 (2007): 568–586. Ricciardi, Renzo. Santa Caterina da Bologna, Ed. Tipografia del Commercio, Bologna 1979. Rubbi, Paola. Una Santa, una Città, Caterina Vigri, co-patrona di Bologna, Ed. del Galluzzo 2004. Spanò Martinelli, Serena. Il processo di canonizzazione di Caterina Vigri, 2003. Santa Caterina da Bologna. Dalla Corte Estense alla Corte Celeste, Bologna, Ed. Barghigiani, 2001. Caterina Vigri, la Santa e la Città, Atti del Convegno, Bologna, 13–15 November 2002, Ed. Galluzzo 2004. Caterina Vigri, The Seven Spiritual Weapons'', translated by Hugh Feiss & Daniela Re, Toronto, 1998. External links Saint Catherine of Bologna