Suri Li is a PhD candidate at the University of Cambridge completing her doctoral thesis on Dominican nunneries and their artistic culture in Renaissance Tuscany. Donal Cooper is professor of Italian and Mediterranean Art in the department of history of art at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Jesus College.

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After centuries of neglect, Plautilla Nelli’s reputation is soaring again

The resurgence of interest in female Renaissance painters has reached the Florentine nun and her workshop – and it’s time to pay more attention to artists in other Tuscan convents

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