Category: Women Renaissance Artists

• Sofonisba’s Inventiveness; Vasari’s Inventione

  

  Given Sofonisba’s 1554 Dominican Astronomer (signed and dated upside down), her nonconformist, voluptuous 1559 Virgin Mary (signed and dated) and her 1578 Madonna dell’ Itria, documented by her official bequest to the monastery (disputed for years as beyond her style), one cannot deny Sofonisba’s range, and the reason Vasari uses the term invenzione to describe her. Which…

  Donna DiGiuseppe

  June 4, 2019

  History & Influences, Women Renaissance Artists

  #Sofonisba, Giorgio Vasari, Renaissance Art, Sofonisba Anguissola, Sofonisba Attributions, women artists

• Rubens and Sofonisba, Handiwork of Masters

  

  Donna DiGiuseppe

  June 4, 2019

  Sofonisba’s Life, Uncategorized, Women Renaissance Artists

  #Sofonisba, Hands, Peter Paul Rubens, Portraiture, Renaissance Art, SF Legion of Honor, Sofonisba Anguissola

• Who Painted the Lady in Ermine? Sofonisba or El Greco?  Biography not Brushstrokes convinces: It’s Sofonisba, Cradle to Grave

  The details of Sofonisba Anguissola’s life show that she had the physical and geographical opportunity to paint a mature Catalina Micaela that her male contemporaries El Greco and Coello did not being far away in Spain. Sofonisba also had personal insight into the Infanta’s private world to render the Infanta of Spain, Catalina Micaela, as…

  Donna DiGiuseppe

  December 28, 2018

  History & Influences, Sofonisba’s Life, Women Renaissance Artists

  #Coello, #El Greco, Catalina Micaela, Elisabeth de Valois, Habsburg, Infanta of Spain, Lady in Ermine, Philip II, Portraiture, Renaissance Art, Sofonisba Anguissola, women artists

• Sofonisba Was Not Always Forgotten

  

  In 1774, Giambattista Zaist wrote Notizie Istoriche de’ Pittori, Scultori, ed Architetti Cremonesi or Historical Notes of Painters, Sculptors, and Architects of Cremona. For seven pages he writes about the accomplishments of Sofonisba Anguissola, recounting her early years, her time in Spain, her long legacy. He concludes with these words, “che superò l’artifizio non solo…

  Donna DiGiuseppe

  December 18, 2018

  Sofonisba’s Life, Women Renaissance Artists

  Cremona, Giorgio Vasari, Italian Art, Portraiture, Renaissance Art, Sofonisba Anguissola, Titian, women artists

• Sofonisba in the Seventeenth Century

  Sofonisba Anguissola continued painting well into her senior years and stopped only after her eyesight failed, as Anthony van Dyck noted in his sketchbook. The Palazzo Abatellis in Palermo attributes this sweet Madonna and Child to Sofonisba in the seventeenth century.

  Donna DiGiuseppe

  December 6, 2018

  Sofonisba’s Life, Women Renaissance Artists

  Anthony van Dyck, Portraiture, Renaissance Art, Sofonisba Anguissola

• 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

• Sofonisba Lives On

  Sofonisba lived a long prolific life. She began studying with Bernardino Campi around 1545. She died in 1625 and painted until at least 1610, probably longer. At the end of her life, she told Anthony van Dyke she wanted to keep painting in her last years, but her failing eyesight forced her to quit. Still,…

  Donna DiGiuseppe

  September 15, 2015

  Historical Fiction, History & Influences, Women Renaissance Artists

  #Sofonisba, Alfio Nicotra, Anthony van Dyck, Bernardino Campi, Diego Velazquez, Doria Pamphili Gallery, Francesco de Medici, Lombard Portraiture, Peter Paul Rubens, Renaissance Art, Sofonisba Anguissola, Titian, women artists

• Sofonisba’s Influence on Diego Velazquez

  Maria Kusche and Sylvia Ferino-Pagden have shown the influence of Sofonisba’s Portrait of Margaret of Savoy with Dwarf (c.1595) on two of Diego Velazquez’ pieces: his Portrait of Prince Baltasar Carlos (1632 Boston, Museum of Fine Arts) and his 1656 Las Meninas, particularly in the way Velazquez poses a vessel that passes between the figures.…

  Donna DiGiuseppe

  June 28, 2015

  History & Influences, Women Renaissance Artists

  #Sofonisba, Diego Velazquez, Sofonisba Anguissola