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Fausto Zonaro (18 September 1854 – 19 July 1929) was an Italian painter, best known for his realist style paintings of life and history of the Ottoman Empire. Life [ edit ]
Girl Running on a Balcony is a 1912 painting by Giacomo Balla, one of the forerunners of the Italian movement called Futurism.The piece indicates the artist's growing interests in creative nuances which would later formally be realized as part of the Futurist movement.
Venus and the Three Graces Presenting Gifts to a Young Woman, also known as Giovanna degli Albizzi Receiving a Gift of Flowers from Venus (Italian: Venere e le tre Grazie offrono doni a una giovane), is a fresco painting by the Italian Renaissance painter Sandro Botticelli of circa 1483–1486.
The artist's sisters are depicted in The Game of Chess, 1555.National Museum in Poznań. 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.
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 ...
Barbara Longhi was born on 21 September 1552 in the northern Italian city of Ravenna, where she spent her entire life. [1] Her father, Luca Longhi (1507–1580), was a well-known Mannerist painter, [2] and her older brother Francesco (1544–1618) was also a painter.
The Madonnina, commonly known as the Madonna of the Streets (Italian: Madonna delle vie) or Madonna del riposo (Italian for 'Madonna of the Rest'), was a painting by Roberto Ferruzzi (1854–1934) that won the second Venice Biennale in 1897. The models for this painting were 11-year-old Angelina Cian [a] and her younger brother. [1]
Zwanger, Meryl, Women and Art in the Renaissance, in: Sister, Columbia University 1995/6. Judith Brown. Gender and Society in Renaissance Italy (Women And Men In History). 1998; Letizia Panizza, Women in Italian Renaissance Culture and Society. Oxford, 2000. ISBN 1-900755-09-2. Mary Rogers, Paola Tinagli. Women in Italy, 1350—1650 ...