Plautilla Nelli (1524–1588): The Painter-Prioress of Renaissance Florence

[...]given that Nelli was evidently self-taught, the range of her technical abilities was limited, and because she was both a prioress and a painter of strictly of devotional images, her art is by definition less provocative than that of her Mannerist contemporaries and thus less likely to attract the eye of would-be researchers. [...]for the first time, the freshness and color of Nelli's art is available for study outside Italy. Additionally, the brevity of the essays, the appended translations of Vasari and Razzi, and the reasonable price will make it a useful teaching tool for courses on Renaissance art and culture.