Eliza Allen Starr

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. She lectured throughout the country. [http://www.catholic.org/encyclopedia/view.php?id=11044 Eliza Allen Starr,] "Catholic Encyclopedia".] A convert form Unitarianism to Catholicism, in 1885 she became the first woman to be awarded the Laetare Medal, the most prestigious honour given to American Catholics. [http://archives.nd.edu/findaids/ead/index/STA001.htm Eliza Allen Starr Papers,] University of Notre Dame.] Pope Leo XIII sent her a medallion after she wrote "The Three Archangels and the Guardian Angels in Art." She was the aunt of and a large influence on Ellen Gates Starr.Bissell Brown, Victoria, 2007, "The Education of Jane Addams", University ofPennsylvania Press, ISBN 081221952X.]

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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"

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