Costanza Ghilini (1754–1775) was an Italian amateur painter.
Born in
Alessandria
Alessandria (; pms, Lissandria ) is a city and ''comune'' in Piedmont, Italy, and the capital of the Province of Alessandria. The city is sited on the alluvial plain between the Tanaro and the Bormida rivers, about east of Turin.
Alessandria ...
, Ghilini was a member of the noble Provana di Collegno family; her parents may have been Vittorio Amedeo Ghilini, marchese di Maranzana and his wife, née Gabriella Maria Teresa dal Pozzo, but this is unconfirmed. She is recorded as having worked in
pastel
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and
oil
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, and to have been a fine performer on the
mandolin
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as well. At her death she was memorialized in a sonnet by the poet
Alessandro Sappa
Alessandro is both a given name and a surname, the Italian form of the name Alexander. Notable people with the name include:
People with the given name Alessandro
* Alessandro Allori (1535–1607), Italian portrait painter
* Alessandro Baricco ...
.
References
1754 births
1775 deaths
Italian women painters
Painters from Piedmont
18th-century Italian painters
18th-century Italian women artists
People from Alessandria
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