Nerina Simi

Nerina "Nera" Simi (April 13, 1890 in Florence – February 4, 1987 in Florence), also known as "La Signorina", was an Italian artist and a teacher of painting and drawing. She was the daughter of the Italian painter Filadelfo (Philadelphus) Simi (1849–1923), himself a student of the French academician Jean-Léon Gérôme (1824–1904).

Education

She spent eight years under her father's tutelage at his Florentine atelier The International Studio on Via Tripoli

Working life

She taught drawing in Florence at the Istituto delle Montalve, called La Quiete (a villa once belonging to a branch of the Medici family), while continuing to assist her father in his studio. In 2014 the municipality of Stazzema renamed a public piazza for her and celebrated the event with a temporary exhibition of work by her former students.

Death Simi died on February 4, 1987, in Florence. She is buried, with her parents, at the cemetery of San Miniato.