Tag: Sofonisba Attributions

• 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

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