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Sirani was born and lived in Bologna, a city that was known for its liberal views of women and for its women artists. A painter, and a printmaker, Sirani was…
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Moroni, a late Renaissance painter, is best known for his extremely realistic portraits of local noblemen and clergy.
Read More An Italian poster artist who lived much of his life in Paris. He was a leading artist, poster designer and caricaturist there.
Read More(1600-1670) A Baroque painter of the seventeenth century, Giovanna Garzoni was one of the first woman artists to practice still life painting. She was likely influenced by the work of…
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(1578 – 1630) The Milanese painter Fede Galizia was recognized as early as twelve years old as a prodigious artist. She was the daughter of a painter who presumably also…
Read MoreLavinia Fontana was an Italian portraitist popular among noblewomen in Bologna and later in Rome where she worked in the court of Pope Paul V. Her family relied on her…
Read More Formally canonized in 1712 as the patron saint of artists, Catherine of Bologna was a nun, writer, and mystic as well as an artist. Many of Saint Catherine’s works were…
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Alessandro di Mariano di Vanni Filipepi, better known as Sandro Botticelli (Italian: [ˈsandro bottiˈtʃɛlli]; c. 1445 – May 17, 1510), was an Italian painter of the Early Renaissance. He belonged…
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Sofonisba Anguissola was born in Cremona, Italy around 1532, and became one of the first Renaissance women to receive an apprenticeship in the arts, hers was with painters Bernardino Campi…
Read More Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione was born on March 23rd, 1609, in Genoa, Italy. He started his studies in art by looking into the work of Peter Paul Rubens. He got instruction…
Read More Bartolomeo Bettera was born in 1639 in Bergamo, Italy. While his life is mostly undocumented, scholars know he was a pupil of the priest-painter Evaristo Baschenis. Baschenis studied the works…
Read More Giovanni di Paolo was born in 1403 in Siena, Italy. He studied early Renaissance Italian painters and was potentially a pupil of Taddeo di Bartolo. To the dismay of emerging…
Read More Giovanni Battista Salvi da Sassoferrato (August 25, 1609 – August 8, 1685), also known as Giovanni Battista Salvi, was an Italian Baroque painter, known for his archaizing commitment to Raphael\’s…
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Artemisia Gentileschi (July 8, 1593 – c.1656) was an Italian Baroque painter, today considered one of the most accomplished painters in the generation after Caravaggio. In an era when female…
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Michelangelo Merisi or Amerighi da Caravaggio (Italian pronunciation: [karaˈvaddʒo]; 29 September 1571? – 18 July 1610?) was an Italian artist active in Rome, Naples, Malta, and Sicily between 1592 (1595?)…
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Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci (Italian pronunciation: [leoˈnardo da vˈvint[i]; April 15, 1452 – May 2, 1519, Old Style) was an Italian Renaissance polymath: painter, sculptor, architect, musician, mathematician,…
Read MoreAmedeo Clemente Modigliani (Italian pronunciation: [ameˈdɛo modiʎˈʎani]; July 12, 1884 – January 24, 1920) was an Italian painter and sculptor who worked mainly in France. Primarily a figurative artist, he…
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