A Biographical Dictionary of the Celebrated Women of Every Age and Country/Vigri, (Beata Caterina)

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VIGRI (BEATA CATERINA),

A most diligent painter, both in oils and miniature; born at Bologna, 1413, where she introduced the order of St. Chiesa, in the noble monastery of Corpus Domini, which was founded there: amongst other fine paintings, one is much esteemed, of Our Saviour, when an infant. She died in 1463, having lived so that she was venerated by all her acquaintance.

Abec. Pitt.