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A small sensation has recently been hanging in the Museum Santa Maria Novella in Florence: the probably only "Last Supper", which was created by a woman. The artist's name is Plautilla Nelli - nun, self-taught and forgotten painter of the Florentine Renaissance.

It took four years for restorer Rosella Lari to be satisfied with her work on the seven by two meter canvas of the painting Renaissance nun. Until all the details of the painting from 1560 were clearly visible again: the clean white tablecloth on which the folds from folding can still be seen, the fine paintings on the bowl with the lamb, the hands of the apostles. "Plautilla painted with strong brushstrokes full of thick paint and with bright pigments - she obviously knew exactly what she wanted and expressed it with her art," says the restorer. That was exceptional for that era.

" Plautilla apparently didn't feel like doing small, decorative works, as was expected of nuns at the time, " says art historian Penny Howard, who lives in London and Florence and collects pictures of Last Suppers in a thick notebook. "She created the painting at a time when it was considered immoral for women to depict historical scenes and life-size figures. And certainly not a sacrament."The subject was reserved for men at the level of their artistic work - as a testament to their skills. Instead, the painters of that time concentrated on flower pictures and still lifes - things that you could paint

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at home, that is, in a safe," controlled "environment. And portrait painting, because you didn't need any anatomy knowledge - women were prohibited from studying nudes.

Portrait painting was so popular at the time that some artists were extremely successful with it. So does Plautilla Nelli. She maintained a painting workshop in the monastery of Santa Caterina di Cafaggio that was run exclusively by women. The nuns sold their works to the nobility and were economically independent.

In 1817, Nelli's Last Supper moved to the Santa Maria Novella Monastery. During the Florence flood in 1966, it was one of 14,000 works of art damaged by the 600,000 tons of water, debris and mud flood when the Arno River burst its banks. After several decades in the monks' private rooms, the restored painting hangs in the old refectory of the monastery - now a museum.

It was the self-taught nun Nelli who in 2006 inspired American art collector Jane Fortune to found the Advancing Women Artists Foundation (AWA), which initiated the restoration of the Nelli Supper. The foundation has set itself the goal of bringing the unknown - female - side of Florentine art to light. In Tuscany alone, hundreds of paintings by female artists are said to be waiting in secret for their restoration.

So Plautilla Nelli's Last Supper was restored - to the film .

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