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ANGUISSOLA Sofonisba Profile Portrait of a Young Woman oil painting


Profile Portrait of a Young Woman
Painting ID::  4813 		Artist: ANGUISSOLA Sofonisba
Painting: Profile Portrait of a Young Woman
Introduction: Oil on canvas, 68,5 x 52,5 cm The Hermitage, St. Petersburg
   
   
     

 

 

 
 

 

 

 
ANGUISSOLA Sofonisba Self-Portrait ghjlytyty oil painting


Self-Portrait ghjlytyty
Painting ID::  4814 		Artist: ANGUISSOLA Sofonisba
Painting: Self-Portrait ghjlytyty
Introduction: 1554 Oil on canvas Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
   
   
     

 

 

 
 

 

 

 
ANGUISSOLA Sofonisba Portrait of Diane d'Andouins and her daughter oil painting


Portrait of Diane d'Andouins and her daughter
Painting ID::  84322 		Artist: ANGUISSOLA Sofonisba
Painting: Portrait of Diane d'Andouins and her daughter
Introduction: 3rd quarter of the 16th century Medium Oil on canvas cyf
   
   
     

 

 

 
 

 

 

 
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     Italian Mannerist Painter, 1532-1625 The best known of the sisters, she was trained, with Elena, by Campi and Gatti. Most of Vasari's account of his visit to the Anguissola family is devoted to Sofonisba, about whom he wrote: 'Anguissola has shown greater application and better grace than any other woman of our age in her endeavours at drawing; she has thus succeeded not only in drawing, colouring and painting from nature, and copying excellently from others, but by herself has created rare and very beautiful paintings'. Sofonisba's privileged background was unusual among woman artists of the 16th century, most of whom, like Lavinia Fontana (see FONTANA (ii),(2)), FEDE GALIZIA and Barbara Longhi (see LONGHI (i), (3)), were daughters of painters. Her social class did not, however, enable her to transcend the constraints of her sex. Without the possibility of studying anatomy, or drawing from life, she could not undertake the complex multi-figure compositions required for large-scale religious or history paintings. She turned instead to the models accessible to her, exploring a new type of portraiture with sitters in informal domestic settings. The influence of Campi, whose reputation was based on portraiture, is evident in her early works, such as the Self-portrait (Florence, Uffizi). Her work was allied to the worldly tradition of Cremona, much influenced by the art of Parma and Mantua, in which even religious works were imbued with extreme delicacy and charm. From Gatti she seems to have absorbed elements reminiscent of Correggio, beginning a trend that became marked in Cremonese painting of the late 16th century. This new direction is reflected in Lucia, Minerva and Europa Anguissola Playing Chess (1555; Poznan, N. Mus.) in which portraiture merges into a quasi-genre scene, a characteristic derived from Brescian models. . Related Artists to ANGUISSOLA Sofonisba : | GUARDI, Gianantonio | John Scarlett Davies | Morphy, Garret | Jean Paul Selinger | Julian Falat |

 

 

 
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