The Last Supper (Plautilla Nelli) Explained
| The Last Supper |
| Image Upright: | 2 |
| Artist: | Plautilla Nelli |
| Year: | 1550s |
| Medium: | Oil on canvas |
| Museum: | Basilica of Santa Maria Novella |
| City: | 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. The painting was largely ignored until the 1990s; it was restored in the 2010s.[2]
References
- 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.
Notes and References
- Web site: Smarthistory – Plautilla Nelli, The Last Supper . 28 August 2024 . smarthistory.org.
- Web site: The Last Supper by Plautilla Nelli in Santa Maria Novella . 29 August 2024 . Santa Maria Novella . en.
