Female Saints in a Predella

15th century?
The Cloisters, Metropolitan Museum of Art

The saints are identified by the labels above their heads and in most cases also by attributes. Left to right: Ursula (palm branch), Barbara (tower), Lucy (lamp?), Clare (dressed as abbess with crozier), Cecilia (organ), illegible (no attribute other than a book), Mary of Egypt (hair).

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Photographed at the Cloisters by Richard Stracke, shared under Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license.