With its mountain of fruit and dance of flowers in the background, this is one of the most ambitious still-life compositions by Orsola Maddalena Caccia. This important Italian woman artist ran a studio that supported an Ursuline convent at Moncalvo. Her idiosyncratic way of individuating each stem of the tulips and irises results in a captivating effect of surface pattern.
Meet another talented nun who painted a monumental Last Supper!
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