A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography/Nelli, Suor Plautilla
NELLI, SUOR PLAUTILLA,
A Florentine lady of noble extraction. A natural genius led her to copy the works of Bartolomeo di St. Marco, and she became, in consequence, an excellent painter. After taking the veil of St. Catharine, at Florence, she composed the "Descent from the Cross;" her pictures possess great merit. She died in 1588, aged sixty-five.