Tag: Doria Pamphili Gallery

• Sofonisba’s Legacy of Invezione Today

  

  I’m delighted to read of Genova’s successful near-completion of the bridge that collapsed so very recently, in 2018. It gives me a feeling of optimism, literally a bridge for the future, inspiring. I can’t resist connecting the success of this modern-day project with Sofonisba’s life of creative invention (invenzione/inventione). Sofonisba and her husband lived in…

  Donna DiGiuseppe

  April 29, 2020

  Italy, Travel, and Culture, Sofonisba’s Life

  #Sofonisba, Doria Pamphili Gallery, Habsburg, Michelangelo, Sofonisba Anguissola

• 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 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

  June 25, 2015

  History & Influences

  #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