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List Of Italian Women Artists
This is a list of women artists who were born in Italy or whose artworks are closely associated with that country. A * Carla Accardi (1924–2014), abstractionist painter * Eleonora Aguiari (born 1973), installation artist *Angelica Veronica Airola (c.1590–1670), Baroque painter * Quirina Alippi-Fabretti (1849–1919), painter * Topazia Alliata (1913–2015), painter, writer * Edina Altara (1898–1983), illustrator, decorator and fashion designer * Giulia Andreani (born 1985), history painter * Amalia de Angelis (fl. 1851–1871), painter * Elena Anguissola (c.1532–1584), painter and nun *Lucia Anguissola (c.1538–c.1565), painter *Sofonisba Anguissola (c.1532–1625), Renaissance painter * Anna Maria Arduino (1633–1700), 17th century painter and writer and the Princess of Piombino from Messina, Sicily * Simona Atzori (born 1974), painter and dancer born without arms B *Pippa Bacca (1974–2008), artist *Bianca Bagnarelli (born 1988), Italian-French illustrator, writer * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Italy
Italy ( it, Italia ), officially the Italian Republic, ) or the Republic of Italy, is a country in Southern Europe. It is located in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea, and its territory largely coincides with the homonymous geographical region. Italy is also considered part of Western Europe, and shares land borders with France, Switzerland, Austria, Slovenia and the enclaved microstates of Vatican City and San Marino. It has a territorial exclave in Switzerland, Campione. Italy covers an area of , with a population of over 60 million. It is the third-most populous member state of the European Union, the sixth-most populous country in Europe, and the tenth-largest country in the continent by land area. Italy's capital and largest city is Rome. Italy was the native place of many civilizations such as the Italic peoples and the Etruscans, while due to its central geographic location in Southern Europe and the Mediterranean, the country has also historically been home ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pippa Bacca
Giuseppina Pasqualino di Marineo (9 December 1974 – 31 March 2008), known as Pippa Bacca, was an Italian performance and feminist artist. On 31 March 2008, Pippa Bacca disappeared in Gebze in Turkey during an international hitchhiking trip to promote world peace under the motto, "marriage between different peoples and nations". Bacca and fellow artist Silvia Moro were symbolically wearing a wedding dress during their trek. On 11 April 2008 the police arrested a man who later confessed to her murder and led the authorities to the discovery of her body. Biography Pippa Bacca was born in Milan. Her father, Guido Pasqualino di Marineo, was originally from Naples. Her mother, Elena Manzoni, was the older sister of artist Piero Manzoni. Bacca worked with different media, including photography, collage and embroidery. Her 2004 piece ''Surgical Mutations'' consisted of a series of leaves collected in a wood and cut-out as to resemble different floral species. In 2006 she had her firs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antonia Bertucci-Pinelli
Antonia Bertucci-Pinelli (died c. 1640) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period. She was born in Bologna, and was instructed in art by Lodovico Carracci. She painted some pictures for the churches; among others, the ''Guardian Angel'' for San Tommaso; and ''St Philip & St. James'' for the church dedicated to those saints. But her most celebrated work was a ''St. John the Evangelist'' for the Annunziata, painted from a design of Lodovico Carracci. Her maiden name was Pinelli, but she married Giovanni Battista Bertusio Giovanni Battista Bertusio (also spelled Bertucci or Bertuzzi; 1577–1644) was a painter of the early- Baroque period, active in Bologna. He trained initially under Denys Calvaert, then under Ludovico and Agostino Carracci. He married the paint .... References * 17th-century Italian painters Italian Baroque painters Painters from Bologna Italian women painters 1640s deaths 17th-century Italian women artists 18th-century Italian women artists [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rosalba Bernini
Rosalba Adelaide Clorinda Bernini (1762/3–1829) was an Italian pastellist. Born in Parma, Bernini was the daughter of the Roman Clemente Bernini and his wife Giuditta Olgiati. She worked in her birth town for some while, producing botanical watercolors and adding two volumes to her father's ''Ornitologia dell'Europa meridionale'', which today may be found in the Biblioteca Palatina. She was also named an honorary member of the Accademia Clementina. In 1781 she married a Signor Corci and moved to Milan, where she is known to have still been active in 1812.Profile at the ''Dictionary of Pastellists Before 1800''. As a pastellist Bernini produced mainly portraits. Johann Zoffany
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Laura Bernasconi
Laura Bernasconi was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, known to be active in 1674. Life Born and died in Rome, she trained with Mario Nuzzi, and like him, painted still life paintings of flowers. She worked in Rome from 1622 to 1675. Little is known about her: she was a pupil of Mario Nuzzi, known as Mario de 'Fiori. Mario Nuzzi was a master of Pier Francesco Cittadini and Paolo Porpora and painted in a style close to that of Francesco Caldei (known as Francesco Mantovano).Gianluca Bocchi, ''Francesco Caldei detto Francesco Mantovano, un pittore lombardo fra Roma e Venezia Parma per l'Arte'' Nuova Serie, Anno XXI, 2015 Gianluca Bocchi From Nuzzi she lea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mirella Bentivoglio
Mirella Bentivoglio (28 March 1922 – 23 March 2017) was an Italian sculptor, poet, performance artist and curator. In the 1960s she joined the international concrete poetry movement. She participated in exhibitions all over the world, including the Venice Biennale (eight times from 1969 to 2001) and the Museum of Modern Art (1992). Biography Mirella Bentivoglio was born in Klagenfurt, Austria, to Italian parents. Her father, Ernesto Bertarelli, was a scientist and professor at the University of Pavia and an avid collector of books. Mirella grew up in Milan and studied in Italy, Switzerland and England. Although her studies were interrupted by World War II, she continued to expand her knowledge using her father's extensive library. She started her career as a poet when she was very young. She published her first collection of poems, ''Giardino'', in 1943, but she waited until 1968 to publish her second poetry book. This unusually long period between the two publications was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daniela Benedini
Daniela Benedini (born May 24, 1972, in Desio, Italy) is an Italian contemporary painter and decorator who is specialized in the use of the ''trompe-l'œil''. Artistic background Daniela Benedini studied painting at Brera Academy of Milan, Italy where she graduated in 1994 with a study on ''The Trompe-l'œil in the History of Art''. For many years she has cooperated with some of the most prestigious Italian interior designers creating her artworks all over the world. Works She has been commissioned murals and decorations for several public buildings and private residences in Italy, Peru, Kazakhstan, Kuwait, Greece, etc. These include the Basilica of Desio, the Public Hospital of Desio, the San Gerardo Hospital in Monza, the Bergamonti Square in Misinto (Italia) and the Cathedral of Chimbote (Peru , image_flag = Flag of Peru.svg , image_coat = Escudo nacional del Perú.svg , other_symbol = Great Seal of the State , other_symbol_ty ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elisabetta Benato-Beltrami
Elisabetta Benato-Beltrami (1813–1888) was a 19th-century Italian painter and sculptor. She lived in Padua since 1858. Her talent, which showed itself early, was first developed by an unknown painter named Soldan, and later at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia. She made copies of Guido, Sassoferrato and Veronese, the Laokoon group, and the Hercules of Canova, and executed a much-admired bas-relief Relief is a sculptural method in which the sculpted pieces are bonded to a solid background of the same material. The term ''relief'' is from the Latin verb ''relevo'', to raise. To create a sculpture in relief is to give the impression that the ... called "Love and Innocence." Among her original paintings are an "Atala and Chactas," " Petrarch's First Meeting with Laura," a "Descent from the Cross " for the church at Tribano, a "St. Sebastian," "Melancholy," a "St. Ciro," and many Madonnas. Her pictures are noble in conception and firm in execution. She exhibited in Milan in 18 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aniella Di Beltrano
Aniella di Beltrano or Anniella di Rosa (1613–1649) was an Italian woman painter of the Baroque period, active in Naples. She trained with Massimo Stanzione, who was a fellow pupil with her husband, Agostino Beltrano (also called Agostiniello) (1616–1665). It is said that her husband stabbed her to death in a fit of jealousy. Her recognized output of paintings is minimal. Attributed to her by Grossi were the ceiling paintings (since removed) of the ''Birth'' and ''Death of the Virgin'' for the church of Pietà dei Turchini The Church of Pietà dei Turchini is a religious building in Naples, Italy. A smaller church, located on Rua Catalana, was built originally in 1592–1595 by the Confraternity of the Incoronatella. This church was nearly destroyed by an explosio ...; the portrait of ''San Biago'' in the church of the Sanità. Volume ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vanessa Beecroft
Vanessa Beecroft (born April 25, 1969) is an Italian-born American contemporary performance artist; she also works with photography, video art, sculpture, and painting. Many of her works have made use of professional models, sometimes in large numbers and sometimes naked or nearly so, to stage ''tableaux vivants''.Francis SummersBeecroft, Vanessa ''Grove Art Online''. ''Oxford Art Online''. Oxford: Oxford University Press. . She works in the United States, and is based in Los Angeles . Her early work was focused on gender and appeared to be autobiographical; her later work is focused on race. Starting in 2008 she began working with Kanye West on collaborations and commercial projects. Early life and education Vanessa Beecroft was born April 25, 1969 in Genoa, Italy and raised in Santa Margherita Ligure and Malcesine near Lake Garda. Both of her parents were teachers; she was born to an Italian mother, Maria Luisa and a British father, Andrew Beecroft. After she was born, her fam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Letizia Battaglia
Letizia Battaglia (; 5 March 1935 – 13 April 2022) was an Italian photographer and photojournalist. Although her photos document a wide spectrum of Sicilian life, she is best known for her work on the Mafia. A documentary film based on her life, ''Shooting the Mafia'', was released in 2019. Early life Battaglia was born in Palermo, Sicily. At the age of 14, her father became irate when she took interest in a boy, and sent her away to boarding school. Battaglia wanted to escape and had ambitions to write. So at 16, she married Franco Stagnitta, who owned his own coffee business and came from a good family. She believed he would allow her to continue her studies, but he wanted her to be a conventional stay-at-home wife, so her writing ambition was somewhat thwarted. Unhappy in her marriage, she eventually took another lover, though her husband shot at her when he found out. She took their daughters and moved to Milan. Work Battaglia took up photojournalism after her divorce in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eleonora Bargili
Eleonora Bargili was an Italian pastellist active during the eighteenth century. A nun at the convent of Santa Maria della Neve in Pistoia Pistoia (, is a city and ''comune'' in the Italian region of Tuscany, the capital of a province of the same name, located about west and north of Florence and is crossed by the Ombrone Pistoiese, a tributary of the River Arno. It is a typi ..., she created an altarpiece of Francis de Sales for that institution. It is undated, but may have been done in conjunction with the establishment in 1739, of an Istituto di S. Francesco di Sales at the convent. at the ''Dictionary of Pastellists Before 1800''. References Italian women painters[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
