Category: Sofonisba’s Life

• Sofonisba’s Brush Rises to the Level of Titian’s

  In 1563, Giovan Paolo Lomazzo praised Sofonisba in his Sogni, “Una femina Cremonese, della quale il nome e’ detto Sofonisba…molti pittori vallenti hanno giudicati quella avere il pennello levato di mano al divino Tiziano…” (Cremona Catalogue, 404). “A Cemonese woman called Sofonisba…many painters judge her brush to be elevated to the level of the divine Titian.”…

  Donna DiGiuseppe

  October 5, 2018

  Sofonisba’s Life

  Cremona, Isabella Stewart Gardner, italian, Italian Art, Portraiture, Renaissance Art, Sofonisba Anguissola, Titian, women artists

• Sofonisba, Spanish Court, September 1559

  In September of 1559, Amilcare Anguissola wrote as a devoted and obedient vassal “devotissimo, et ubidiente vassallo” to Philip II, the King of Spain, to accept the summons sent to his very dear daughter Sofonisba “me tanto carissima figliola” to serve as a lady in waiting to the next Queen of Spain “Serenissima nostra Regina”…

  Donna DiGiuseppe

  September 29, 2018

  Sofonisba’s Life

  Cremona, Elisabeth de Valois, Italian Art, Michelangelo, Philip II, Portraiture, Sofonisba Anguissola, women artists

• September 1549

  In September 1549, the future King of Spain Philip II, paraded through Cremona, Lombardy during a tour of his future realm. Sofonisba Anguissola would have caught her first glimpse of him then, during The Prince’s Parade.

  Donna DiGiuseppe

  September 29, 2018

  Sofonisba’s Life, Women Renaissance Artists

  1549, Cremona, italian, Italian Art, Philip II, Portraiture, Renaissance Art, Sofonisba Anguissola, women artists