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Antonia Bertucci-Pinelli (died c. 1640) was an Italian painter of the

Baroque The Baroque (, ; ) is a style of architecture, music, dance, painting, sculpture, poetry, and other arts that flourished in Europe from the early 17th century until the 1750s. In the territories of the Spanish and Portuguese empires including t ...

period. She was born in

Bologna Bologna (, , ; egl, label= Emilian, Bulåggna ; lat, Bononia) is the capital and largest city of the Emilia-Romagna region in Northern Italy. It is the seventh most populous city in Italy with about 400,000 inhabitants and 150 different nat ...

, and was instructed in art by

Lodovico Carracci Ludovico (or Lodovico) Carracci (21 April 1555 – 13 November 1619) was an Italian, early-Baroque painter, etcher, and printmaker born in Bologna. His works are characterized by a strong mood invoked by broad gestures and flickering light th ...

. 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

. 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 ...

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* 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 {{Italy-painter-17thC-stub