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THE ANNUNCIATION - PLAUTILLA NELLI - 18" x 22"
This is a beautiful reproduction of the Annunciation originally painted by Plautilla Nelli in the sixteenth-century. It is printed on textured paper with a Masonite backer board and framed in a decorative gold wood frame with a wire hanger.
Measures 18" W x 22”H.
Plautilla Nelli was born in the San Felice area of Florence, Italy in 1524. She became a nun at the age of fourteen, taking on the name Suor Plautilla, at the convent of Santa Caterina di Cafaggio; she would later be prioress on three occasions. Her art was self-taught and her primary source of inspiration came from copying works of Fra Bartolomeo who left his drawings to his pupil, Fra Paolino who, in turn left them in the possession of “a nun who paints”. Plautilla Nelli is one of the first known female Renaissance artists.