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The Last Supper (Plautilla Nelli)

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The Last Supper
ArtistPlautilla Nelli
Year1550s
MediumOil on canvas
LocationBasilica of Santa Maria Novella, Florence

The Last Supper is a large (6.5' × 25') oil painting on canvas by the Italian Renaissance artist Plautilla Nelli, one of only four women artists mentioned in Giorgio Vasari's Lives of the Artists.[1] Nelli was a nun at the Dominican monastery of Santa Caterina in Florence and painted The Last Supper for its refectory.[1] The painting was largely ignored until the 1990s; it was restored in the 2010s.[2]

Notes

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  1. ^ a b "Smarthistory – Plautilla Nelli, The Last Supper". smarthistory.org. Retrieved 28 August 2024.
  2. ^ "The Last Supper by Plautilla Nelli in Santa Maria Novella". Santa Maria Novella. Retrieved 29 August 2024.

References

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  • Linda Falcone, editor, Visible: Plautilla Nelli and Her Last Supper Restored; Plautilla Nelli e la sua Ultima Cena restaurata (Prato: B’Gruppo Srl, 2019).
  • Ann Roberts, "The Dominican Audience of Plautilla Nelli’s Last Supper", Plautilla Nelli (1524–1588): The Painter-Prioress of Renaissance Florence, edited by Jonathan Nelson (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2008), pp. 72–83.
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