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Beguinage

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Be`gui`nage´
n.1.A collection of small houses surrounded by a wall and occupied by a community of Beguines.


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Further exploration took us to the Great Beguinage, a beautiful spot along the river with tree-lined walkways and views across to magnificent houses on the riverbank.
Illustrations in the Great Beguinage of Mechelen show Beguines wearing habits, but it's not clear whether that was de rigueur.
An example from his work in Siena is the tondo, The Holy Family with the Infant St John and St Jerome and St Anthony of Padua, which was probably painted for a member of the wealthy Bichi family who had retreated to an early form of beguinage under the control of the Franciscan convent of St Jerome in the south of Siena.
 
 
 
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