BACCIO BANDINELLI

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Baccio (Bartolommeo) Bandinelli (1493-1560).

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LEONARDO DA VINCI’S ‘THE ADORATION OF THE MAGI’ BACK AT THE UFFIZI GALLERY

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After six years of restoration and inspection, Leonardo da Vinci’s The Adoration of the Magi is back at the Uffizi Gallery in Florence.

Leonardo was commissioned to paint the “The Adoration of the Magi” in 1481 by the Austin Friars but stopped painting after a preliminary study upon leaving for Milan in 1491. Another altarpiece depicting the Adoration of the Magi was commissioned from Filippino Lippi and completed in 1496, while Leonardo’s work found a home in the palazzo of the Benci family in Florence, later joining the Medici family’s collections.

At 246 x 243 cm, the work is the Uffizi’s largest panel painting by the artist.

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(Perspectival study for The Adoration of the Magi, c. 1481.)

SUOR PLAUTILLA NELLI

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Plautilla Nelli (1524-1588).

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Suor Plautilla Nelli was born into a noble Florentine family. She entered the convent of Santa Caterina di Siena in Florence (which taught painting and sculpting of terracotta figures) in 1538, at the age of 14, and eventually became its prioress, several times.

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The convent (now destroyed), located in Piazza San Marco, was supposedly annexed into the Galleria dell’Accademia in 1853 and was briefly part of the Accademia delle Belle Arti. According to noted Nelli expert, Catherine Turrill, many of the nuns at Santa Caterina were daughters of Florentine artisans, and the convent was unrivaled throughout Italy for the ‘number and significance’ of its nun-artists.

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