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The absence of women from the canon of Western art has been a subject of inquiry and reconsideration since the early 1970s. Linda Nochlin's influential 1971 essay, "Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?", examined the social and institutional barriers that blocked most women from entering artistic professions throughout history, prompted a new focus on women artists, their art and ...
Following is a list of Italian painters (in alphabetical order) who are notable for their art. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources .
More than 25 women active in 20 cities from Venice to Naples have been recorded as artists during the Cinquecento. Most were painters, but 2 were called intagliatrici, 4 (all Milanesi) ricamatrici, Properzia De'Rossi was the sole scultrice.
Floria Sigismondi (born 1965), Italian-Canadian photographer; Luisa Silei (1825–1898), landscape painter; Roberta Silva (born 1971), Trinidad and Tobago-born contemporary artist; Nerina Simi (1890–1987), painter, art teacher; Elisabetta Sirani (1638–1665), Baroque painter; Violante Beatrice Siries (1709–1783), painter; Maria Spanò ...
Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci [b] (15 April 1452 – 2 May 1519) was an Italian polymath of the High Renaissance who was active as a painter, draughtsman, engineer, scientist, theorist, sculptor, and architect. [3]
The stormy chiaroscuro paintings of Caravaggio and the robust, illusionistic paintings of the Bolognese Carracci family gave rise to the baroque period in Italian art. Domenichino , Francesco Albani , and later Andrea Sacchi were among those who carried out the classical implications in the art of the Carracci.
Maria Luisa Caterina Cecilia Cosway (ma-RYE-ah [citation needed]; née Hadfield; 11 June 1760 – 5 January 1838) was an Italian-English painter, musician, and educator.She worked in England, France, and later Italy, cultivating a large circle of friends and clients, mainly as an initiate of Swedish and French Illuminism and an enthusiastic revivalist of the Masonic Knights Templar [citation ...
The first full, factual account of Artemisia's life, The Image of the Female Hero in Italian Baroque Art, was published in 1989 by Mary Garrard, a feminist art historian. She then published a second, smaller book entitled Artemisia Gentileschi around 1622: The Shaping and Reshaping of an Artistic Identity in 2001 that explored the artist's work ...