The iconography of charity redux: the origins of two little-known symbols for amor proximi in fifteenth century Italian art.

'Explores the sources of two attributes associated with personifications of charity, the lighted candle and the arrow, in religious art and writings of the 15th c. Focuses on two examples of funerary art: the tomb of Cardinal Marino Bulcano (Rome, S.Francesca Romana, ca.1400), which includes the candle motif, and a manuscript, illumination by Michelino da Besozzo, Giangaleazzo Visconti in Adoration before the Madonna and Child, Virtues and Angels (Paris, B.N., Ms Lat.5888, Pietro da Castelletto, Funeral oration for Giangaleazzo Visconti, 1403), which includes two figures of charity, one with a burning candle, the other holding an arrow' (BHA).