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Sister Plautilla Nelli, the Forgotten Woman Painter of the Renaissance
After centuries of oblivion, the Dominican nun was recently brought back to light thanks to the restoration of her monumental Last Supper painting at the Basilica of Santa Maria Novella in Florence.