Imaginary Conversations – with due respect to Walter Savage Landor – Artemisia Gentilischi chats with Plautilla Nelli

Imaginary Conversations – with due respect to Walter Savage Landor – Artemisia Gentilischi chats with Plautilla Nelli

by | 19 Jun, 2020 | Advancing Women Artists AWA, Artemesia Gentileschi, Books, British Royal family, Florentine History, Footnotes from Florence, Italian Law, News, Plautilla Nelli, poets and poetry, Social History, Women artists

A.G. “Is that really you Plautilla? It is so difficult to recognise you when the only image of you that I have is a blanked out face in the corner of one of your frescos”. Whatever were you trying to say about yourself when you painted that? Plautilla...
Plautilla Nelli – Pray for the Paintress

Plautilla Nelli – Pray for the Paintress

by | 24 Oct, 2019 | 1966 Flood, Activities, Advancing Women Artists AWA, Exhibitions, Florentine History, Plautilla Nelli, Religious History, Religious Symbolism, Renaissance Art, Saints, Social History, The Last Supper, Women artists

  Ladies, Imagine for a moment that you are a true child of the Renaissance, living in Florence in the Cinquecento! You live with your wealthy family in quite a large palazzo, most probably beautifully decorated inside, with wall hangings and upholstery made of...
Updated Chronology of Last Suppers

Updated Chronology of Last Suppers

by | 18 May, 2018 | Advancing Women Artists AWA, Florentine History, Florentine money, Footnotes from Florence, Fresco painting, Medieval History, Modern Art, News, Painting, Religious History, Religious Symbolism, Renaissance Art, Restoration, Saints, Sculpture, Social History, The Last Supper, Women artists

Chronology of Last Suppers   This month I have attended a meeting with my friends from the Advancing Women Artists Foundation and discovered that there are two or three Disciples in The Last Supper by Plautilla Nelli that they were still uncertain as to who was who. I...
Plautilla Nelli – the Nun who started a Women’s Art Movement in Florence in the 1500’s – now stronger than ever.

Plautilla Nelli – the Nun who started a Women’s Art Movement in Florence in the 1500’s – now stronger than ever.

by | 20 Mar, 2017 | Advancing Women Artists AWA, Exhibitions, Florentine History, Medieval History, News, Painting, Religious History, Renaissance Art, Restoration, Social History, The Last Supper, Women artists

Suor Plautilla Nelli (1524–1588) is the first-known female Renaissance painter of Florence, Italy. It is not possible to confirm that the portrait, shown below, is the painter who chose to become a Nun and entered the Convent of St. Catherine of Siena in Florence,...