Religiosidad femenina y reforma dominicana: el sepulcro de beatriz de Portugal en el monasterio del sancti spiritus de Toro

Abstract

The present paper aims to analyse the main iconographic singularities of Queen Beatrice of Portugal’s tomb, conserved in the choir of the convent of Sancti Spiritus in Toro (Zamora). The presence of Brother Giles of Santarém, depicted at the feet of the image of the queen dressed in the Dominican habit, and of Saint Catherine of Siena, completing the gallery of illustrious members of the Order of Preachers, might point to not only the queen’s possible participation in the creation of her tomb’s iconographic programme, but also the profound knowledge of the abovementioned reforming saint in the Province of Spain at the beginning of the 15th Century.