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Sofonisba Anguissola (c. 1532 [1] – 16 November 1625), also known as Sophonisba Angussola or Sophonisba Anguisciola, [2] [3] was an Italian Renaissance painter born in Cremona to a relatively poor noble family.
Image Title Date Collection Inventory number Ref Portrait of Elena Anguissola: 1540s or 1551 Southampton City Art Gallery, UK : Self-portrait: 1550 Uffizi, Florence : Self-portrait
Giorgio Vasari, visiting Cremona, was a guest in the house of Amilcare Anguissola and there admired paintings by Amilcare's daughters.About The Game of Chess he wrote, "I have seen this year in Cremona, in the house of her father a painting made with much diligence, the depiction of his three daughters, in the act of playing chess, and with them an old housemaid, done with such diligence and ...
In 1559, not long after the creation of Bernardino Campi Painting Sofonisba Anguissola, Sofonisba Anguissola moved to Spain and began to work as the court painter for King Philip II. Sandberg argued that this piece was meant to be Anguissola’s way of advertising herself to the king of Spain as someone worthy of being apart of his court. [5]
Sofonisba Anguissola (c. 1532 – 16 November 1625) — was an Italian Renaissance painter which was admirated by Giorgio Vasari and reached a great success, opening the way for larger numbers of women to pursue serious careers as artists.
The Portrait of Juana of Austria and a Young Girl is a full-length portrait executed by the Italian sixteenth-century artist Sofonisba Anguissola.It was one of Anguissola's first paintings after arriving at the Spanish court, where she was official painter to the queen of Spain, Isabel de Valois.
The child (Asdrubale Anguissola) has put his hand in a basket, where a lobster is hidden. He cries from the sudden pain, next to his little sister (Europa Anguissola). This drawing, which anticipates Caravaggio's Boy Bitten by a Lizard, depicts one of the first expressions by the artist in which a sudden physical pain provokes an outpouring of ...
Elena Anguissola (who became a nun with the name of Sister Minerva) was the daughter of Amilcare Anguissola and Bianca Ponzoni. The spelling of the surname, in sixteenth century documents, varies between Angosciola and Angussola. Her parents were of noble origins. Her father belonged to the Genoese nobility and had moved to Lombardy.