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Message:: [QUOTE="Iconodule, post: 10585918, member: 91417"]Another possiblity. But the saint's habit does not look Dominican to me.  Dominicans wear a white tunic & white scapular with a black cappa (cloak). In art the white garment is usually clearly displayed to indicate the religious order.  This nun wears a black habit. (However, she does have white sleeves with buttons under her black robe.  That strikes me as unusual--but I am ignorant of what order may wear/once wore buttoned, tight sleeves.  Maybe it is a clue to her identity or to the date of the painting.)  Lowered eyes do not necessarily mean blindness, but modesty, humility, obedience--all those decorous "female" virtues appropriate to a nun or female saint. Here's some older images of the pre-eminent Dominican female saint, Catherine of Siena, by Giovanni di Paolo (15th century Sienese). Note her white Dominican habit under the black cappa.  Her veil is also white, but some later images show Dominicans with a black veil over the white coif, so I suspect there were changes in the habit over time. But I know of no Dominicans wearing black for the main garment. [ATTACH=full]531027[/ATTACH]Giovanni di Paolo, St. Catherine of Siena, Fogg Museum of Art, Cambridge, Massachusetts [ATTACH=full]531028[/ATTACH]Giovanni da Paolo, St. Catherine of Siena Exchanging Her Heart with Christ, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City[/QUOTE]