Plautilla Nelli (Attr.) Saint Catherine with a Lily, VI century, Diocesan Museum, Assisi
Plautilla Nelli’s Assisi Catherine
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The Assisi version of Nelli’s Saint Catherine with a Lily restored in time for the artist’s first monographic. Uffizi Galleries, 2017. In the catalog, Art and Devotion in Savonarola’s Footsteps, scholar Fausta Navarro writes: “The series of portraits, most likely painted during the 1570s and 1580s, is characterized by the soft luminescence of the green background, obtained with brushstrokes of thick color that radiate from the saint’s head, becoming increasingly bright like rays of light; her rejuvenated face looks as young as a girl’s, as happened with the other “living saints” during their raptures as well. The image of the suffering saint is conceived to energize prayer and meditation on the suffering of Christ and to inspire the faithful to feel the same, aims perfectly fulfilling the precepts for religious painting laid down by the Council of Trent.”