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Ms. Rinaldi, the archaeologist, said it was possible that one of the confraternities also commissioned the painting.

From New York Times • Jun. 12, 2022

Starting in the 14th century, two Christian confraternities — associations of laypeople — became affiliated with the Colosseum and began putting on representations of the Passion of Christ.

From New York Times • Jun. 12, 2022

He described the present confraternities as "vile, evil groups".

From BBC • Jun. 1, 2020

Traipsing across Venice in search of Tintoretto clarified how thoroughly a Christian faith animated the formal invention of his greatest paintings, which I often found in obscure churches and cash-poor confraternities.

From New York Times • Nov. 15, 2018

Each attracted numbers of rich patrons, for it was the fashion to belong to the confraternities.

From The Venetian School of Painting by Phillipps, Evelyn March