The Last Supper (Plautilla Nelli)

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. Nelli was a nun at the Dominican monastery of Santa Caterina in Florence and painted The Last Supper for its refectory. The painting was largely ignored until the 1990s; it was restored in the 2010s.

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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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