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

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