Est autem fides sperandarum substantia rerum. Ipotesi per una possibile identificazione di un inedito soggetto iconografico

In the episcopal palace of Castellaneta (Taranto) a painting by an unknown author, datable in the XVIIth century, is kept. It represents a woman in rich clothes who, while holding a wooden crucifix in her right hand, by her left one she seems taking off a veil from her face. This figure, compared with the classical models of holy iconography, appears unable to be directly referred to any other more known subject of western hagiography and we had better insert it in the tradition of devoutness that has reproduced virtues and christian values disguised in human figures: in the case of the painting we are discussing of, the theological virtue of faith.