This is a list of women artists who were born in Italy or whose artworks are closely associated with that country.

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Carla Accardi Carla Accardi (9 October 1924 – 23 February 2014) was an Italian abstract painter associated with the Arte Informel and Arte Povera movements, and a founding member of the Italian art groups Forma (1947) and Continuità (1961). Biography Born ...

(1924–2014), abstractionist painter *

Eleonora Aguiari Eleonora Aguiari (born 1973) is an Italian installation artist and author, who lives between London and Paris. Her best known work consisted of wrapping a historic statue in London in red tape. Life Eleonora Aguiari was born in Genoa, Italy. Sh ...

(born 1973), installation artist * Angelica Veronica Airola (c.1590–1670), Baroque painter * Quirina Alippi-Fabretti (1849–1919), painter *

Topazia Alliata Topazia Alliata (; 5 September 1913 – 23 November 2015) was an Italian painter, curator, art dealer and writer. Biography Alliata was born in Palermo from Prince Enrico Maria Alliata di Villafranca, Duke of Salaparuta (1879–1946), and a f ...

(1913–2015), painter, writer *

Edina Altara Edina Altara (1898–1983) was an Italian illustrator, decorator and fashion designer from Sassari. In the thirties she was devoted to ceramics, fashion and decoration. A versatile artist, skilled designer, sensitive and imaginative illust ...

(1898–1983), illustrator, decorator and fashion designer * Giulia Andreani (born 1985), history painter * Amalia de Angelis (fl. 1851–1871), painter *

Elena Anguissola Elena Anguissola ( – 1584) was an Italian painter and nun. She was the sister of the better-known painter Sofonisba (or Sophonisba) Anguissola. Biography Elena Anguissola (who became a nun with the name of Sister Minerva) was the daughter of ...

(c.1532–1584), painter and nun * Lucia Anguissola (c.1538–c.1565), painter * Sofonisba Anguissola (c.1532–1625), Renaissance painter *

Anna Maria Arduino Anna Maria Arduino (1672–1700) was an Italian regent, socialite, painter and writer. She was the regent of the Principality of Piombino during the minority of her son Prince Niccolò II Ludovisi in 1699–1700. Life She was born in Messina, I ...

(1633–1700), 17th century painter and writer and the Princess of Piombino from

Messina Messina (, also , ) is a harbour city and the capital of the Italian Metropolitan City of Messina. It is the third largest city on the island of Sicily, and the 13th largest city in Italy, with a population of more than 219,000 inhabitants in ...

, Sicily *

Simona Atzori Simona Atzori (born June 18, 1974) is an Italian artist and dancer who was born in Milan. She was born without arms, and uses her feet to draw, write and perform all other daily activities. Attempts were made to fit Simona with prosthetic arm ...

(born 1974), painter and dancer born without arms

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* Pippa Bacca (1974–2008), artist *

Bianca Bagnarelli Bianca Bagnarelli (born 21 May 1988 in Milan, Italy) is an Italian-French artist, author, illustrator and cartoonist. In 2015, the Society of Illustrators awarded her the gold medal in the short form category of their juried Comic and Cartoon Art ...

(born 1988), Italian-French illustrator, writer * Maria Maddalena Baldacci (1718–1782), painter *

Rosa Barba Rosa Barba (born 1972, Agrigento, Italy) is a German-Italian visual artist and filmmaker. Barba is known for using the medium of film and its materiality to create cinematic film installations, sculptures and publications, which inquire into the ...

(born 1972), installation artist *

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 t ...

(18th century), pastellist * Letizia Battaglia (born 1935), photographer * Vanessa Beecroft (born 1969), contemporary artist *

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) (1 ...

(1613–1649), Baroque painter *

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 B ...

(1813–1888), painter, sculptor *

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, Ital ...

(born 1972), contemporary painter *

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, includ ...

(1922–2017), sculptor, poet, performance artist *

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. Li ...

(fl.1674), Baroque painter *

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 wate ...

(1762–1829), pastellist *

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 S ...

(died c.1640), Baroque painter *

Carlotta de Bevilacqua Carlotta de Bevilacqua (born 23 June 1957) is an Italian architect, designer and entrepreneur. She is currently President and CEO of Artemide and President of Danese Milano. Biography Graduated in 1983 in Architecture at the Politecnico di Mila ...

(born 1957), lighting designer *

Rossella Biscotti Rossella Biscotti (born 1978) is an Italian visual artist best known for her installations, performances and video. Early life and education She graduated from the Accademia di Belle Arti in Naples in 2002, she attended the Rijksakademie van B ...

(born 1978), visual artist, video maker *

Ernesta Legnani Bisi Ernesta Legnani Bisi (June 18, 1788 – November 13, 1859) was an Italian painter and engraver. Born in Milan, she became a student of the Brera Academy, where she studied under the direction of Giuseppe Longhi. She was recognized as a bri ...

(1788–1859), painter and engraver *

Fulvia Bisi Fulvia Bisi (1818–1911) was an Italian landscape painter. Biography She was born in Milan. Her father, the landscape painter Giuseppe Bisi, had studied under the engraver Giuseppe Longhi; her mother was Ernesta Legnani. She apprenticed with h ...

(1818–1911), painter * Rita Boley Bolaffio (1898–1995), collage artist *

Clelia Bompiani Clelia Bompiani-Battaglia (5 August 1848 in Rome – 23 February 1927 in Rome) was an Italian painter. She was a pupil of her father, Roberto Bompiani, and of the professors in the Accademia di San Luca. She was an accomplished watercolorist. Th ...

(1848–1927), painter *

Monica Bonvicini Monica Bonvicini (born 1965 in Venice) is an Italian artist. In her work, Bonvicini investigates the relationship between power structures, gender and space. She works intermediately with installation, sculpture, video, photography and drawing me ...

(born 1965), sculptor, photographer, video artist, educator * Giuseppina Quaglia Borghese (1765–1831), painter and pastellist *

Erma Bossi Erma Bossi (1875-1952) was an Italian German Expressionism, German Expressionist painter. Biography Bossi was born in 1875 in Pula. She studied art in Munich and was associated with Gabriele Münter and Wassily Kandinsky. She was a member of ...

(1875-1952), painter *

Luigia Bozzini Luigia Bozzini or Candida Luigia Bozzini (19th century) was an Italian painter, mainly in Piacenza and mainly depicting religious subjects. Her father Paolo Bozzini was also a painter. Among her works are a ''Madonna del Sacro Cuore di Gesù'', ...

(19th century), religious painter * Faustina Bracci Armellini (1785–1857), pastellist * Antonietta Brandeis (1848–1926), painter * Nina Breeder (born 1982), contemporary artist *

Plautilla Bricci Plautilla Bricci (; or Plautilla Brizio; 1616-1705) was a 17th-century Roman architect, painter and sculptor; she was the only female architect of her day. Her most famous work is Villa Benedetti (Villa il Vascello) near the Porta San Pancrazio, ...

(1616–1690), architect, painter * Eufrasia Burlamacchi (1482–1548), manuscript illuminator *

Angiola Guglielma Butteri Angiola Guglielma Butteri,Orsola Maddalena Caccia Orsola Maddalena Caccia, born Theodora Caccia (1596–1676) was an Italian mannerist painter and Catholic nun. She painted religious images, altarpieces, and still lifes. Biography The daughter of painter Guglielmo Caccia and Laura Olivia, ...

(1596–1676), nun, religious painter * Margherita Caffi (1650–1710), flower painter *

Maria Callani Maria Callani (15 August 1778 – 9 February 1803) was an Italian portrait painter, active in the 18th century in Milan and Parma, Italy. Biography Maria Callani was born 15 August 1778 in Milan, Italy, her father was artist Gaetano Callani a ...

(1778–1803), 18th century portrait painter, active in Parma. *

Suor Prudenza Cambi Suor Prudenza Fiammetta Cambi (died 1601) was a Florentine nun and artist during the sixteenth century at Santa Caterina da Siena in Florence, Italy. She has been identified as one of Plautilla Nelli’s artistic ‘disciples.’ Early life and b ...

(died 1601), painter and nun * Milena Canonero (born 1946), costume designer * Ginevra Cantofoli (1618–1672), Baroque painter * Sister Luisa Capomazza (c.1600–1646), painter * Benedetta Cappa (1897–1977), futurist artist *

Antonella Cappuccio Antonella Cappuccio (born 21 February 1944) is an Italian artist. Life Cappuccio was born in Ischia and moved to Rome with her family. She studied at the there, going on to work in cinema and television as a costume designer. During the 1970s, ...

(born 1944), costume designer *

Ghitta Carell Ghitta Carell (20 September 1899 – 18 January 1972) was the professional name of Ghitta Klein, a naturalized Italian photographer, born in Hungary, who came to prominence between 1930 and 1950. Noted for her portraiture, she was a favored pho ...

(1899–1972), Hungarian-born Italian photographer *

Marianna Carlevarijs Marianna Carlevarijs (1703 – 1750) was an Italian painter, active mainly in Venice, creating pastel portraits. Biography Marianna was the daughter of the prominent Venetian painter of vedute, Luca Carlevarijs. She was a friend, and pupil in the ...

(1703–1750), painter and pastellist * Rosalba Carriera (1673–1757), painter *

Maria Vittoria Cassana Maria Vittoria Cassana (died 1711) was an Italian painter of the late-Baroque. She was the daughter of Giovanni Francesco Cassana. She painted small pictures of religious subjects for private collections. See also * Cassana (family) The Cassana we ...

(died 1711), painter * Caterina Amigoni Castellini (18th century), pastellist * Beatrice Catanzaro (born 1975), conceptual artist * Catherine of Bologna (1413–1463), nun, artist, saint * Nicoletta Ceccoli (born 1973), San Marinian illustrator *

Giulia Centurelli Giulia Centurelli (31 October 1832, in Ascoli Piceno – 24 January 1872, in Rome) was an Italian painter and poet. Life Giulia Centurelli was born on 31 October 1832 in Ascoli Piceno. She studied at the Institute of Fine Arts in the Piceno cap ...

(1832–1872), painter and poet *

Maria Suppioti Ceroni Maria Suppioti Ceroni (1730 – 1773?) was an Italian pastellist. Born Maria Suppioti in Vicenza, Ceroni produced portraits and religious and mythological scenes and was active as an engraver as well. Her instructor was Giambettino Cignaroli. She ...

(1730–c.1773), pastellist *

Vittoria Chierici Vittoria Chierici (born in Bologna, 7 April 1955) is an Italian artist. Life and career Chierici was born in Bologna but moved to Milan with her family where she finished her high school studies before returning to Bologna to attend DAMS (the ...

(born 1955), painter *

Caterina Cherubini Caterina Cherubini (died 1811) was an Italian miniature painter. Cherubini, active for much of her career in Rome, was named a member of the Accademia di San Luca in 1760; the Accademia contains in its collection an anonymous oil portrait of he ...

(died 1811), miniaturist *

Amalia Ciardi Dupré Amalia Ciardi Duprè (born 1934) is an Italian sculptor and painter. Early life and education Ciardi Duprè is the great-great granddaughter of sculptor Giovanni Duprè (1817–1882) and grand-niece to her namesake, artist Amalia Duprè (1842– ...

(born 1934), sculptor and painter * Emma Ciardi (1879–1933), painter * Vittoria Cocito (1891–1971), painter and illustrator * Marina Cicogna (born 1934), film producer and photographer * Barbara Ciardo (born 1983), comic book colorist * Maria Giovanna Clementi (1692–1761), portrait painter * Daniela Comani (born 1965), multimedia artist * Theresa Maria Coriolano (1620–1671), engraver *

Maddalena Corvina Maddalena Corvina (1607-1664) was an Italian portrait and still life painter and engraver. Corvina specialized in miniature portrait paintings. Living and working in Rome, the House of Medici were patrons. She apprenticed under her uncle, Frances ...

(1607–1664), painter and engraver *

Liliana Cossovel Liliana Cossovel (1924–1984) was an Italian artist specializing in abstract painting and collage. Early life Liliana Cossovel was born in 1924 in Gorizia and died in 1984 in Venice. In 1948, she moved to Venice to study painting and architectur ...

(1924–1984), painter, collagist * Maria Cosway (1760–1838), Italian-English painter *

Mariangiola Criscuolo Mariangiola Criscuolo (c. 1548–1630) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance period, active mainly in her native city of Naples. She is known for portraiture and history painting, and excelled in painting altarpieces. She was also involved in ...

(c.1548–1630), Renaissance painter * Maria Eufrasia della Croce (1597–1676), nun, painter

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Dadamaino Eduarda Emilia Maino (2 October 1930 – 13 April 2004), known as Dadamaino, was an Italian visual artist and painter. She was a member of the Milanese avant-garde of the 1960s. Biography Eduarda Emilia Maino, nicknamed "Dada" for ...

(1930–2004), painter * Isabella Maria dal Pozzo (fl. 1660s), painter *

Teodora Danti Teodora Danti (c.1498–c.1573) was a painter and writer from Perugia, Italy. Described as spirited and virtuous, she was never married nor had children. She was the aunt of famed Florentine Mannerist sculptor Vincenzo Danti, yet goes unmentione ...

(c.1498–c.1573), painter, writer * Caterina Davinio (born 1957), poet, novelist, new media artist * Elena de' Grimani (born 1975), comic book artist and illustrator *

Yvonne De Rosa Yvonne De Rosa (born 21 October 1975 in Naples), is an Italian photographer. Biography Yvonne De Rosa graduated in Political Science, then relocated to London, where she studied at Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design. She has subsequ ...

(born 1975), photographer * Marianna Candidi Dionigi (1756–1826), painter and writer *

Anna Vittoria Dolara Suor or Sister Anna Vittoria Dolara (1754–1827) was an Italian Dominican nun in Rome; she is known for her piety, poetry, and painting. Biography She was a nun in the monastery of Santa Maria Maddalena (later Santa Caterina a Magnanapoli in ...

(1754–1827), nun, poet, painter *

Agnese Dolci Agnese Dolci (1635 – 1686) was an Italian painter and the daughter of Carlo Dolci. Little is known of her life. Works by her are mostly attributed to her father or are called copies after her father. Two paintings ''Jesus took bread and blesse ...

(1635–1686), painter *

Valentina D'Urbano Valentina D'Urbano (born Rome, 28 June 1985) is an Italian writer and illustrator. She was the recipient of the Rapallo Carige Prize for ''Quella vita che ci manca'' in 2015. References

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(born 1985), writer and illustrator *

Irene Parenti Duclos Irene Parenti Duclos (or Irene Parenti, or her academic nickname Lincasta Ericinia) (1754–1795) was an Italian painter and poet. Her work as an expert copyist of old master paintings was highly valued in her era, and brought her honors from seve ...

(1754–1795), painter, poet * Amalia Ciardi Duprè (born 1934), sculptor, painter

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Adriana Bisi Fabbri Adriana Bisi Fabbri (1881–1918) was an Italian painter. Biography Adriana Fabbri was born in Ferrara, where she met her future husband, journalist Giannetto Bisi, and she spent part of her youth in Padua as a guest of Umberto Boccioni’s m ...

(1881–1918), painter *

Orsola Faccioli Orsola Faccioli or Licata Faccioli (August 16, 1823 –1906) was an Italian painter, mainly of vedute and interior scenes. Biography She was born in Vicenza, the last of seven siblings, of which only three reached adulthood. Her family arranged fo ...

(1823–1906), painter *

Lucrina Fetti Lucrina Fetti (c. 1590 – c. 1673) was an Italian painter born in Rome under the name ''Giustina''Sandra Cavallo and Silvia Evangelisti, Domestic Institutional Interiors in Early Modern Europe, 2009 (Vermont: Ashgate 2014), p166 She was the daug ...

(c.1590–1651), painter * Teresa Fioroni-Voigt (1799–1880), painter of miniatures * Eva Fischer (1920–2015), Croatian-born Italian painter and engraver * Lavinia Fontana (1552–1614), early professional female painter *

Giovanna Fratellini Giovanna Fratellini (1666 – 1731) was a Florentine artist during the Baroque period. Born in Florence as Giovanna Marrmocchini Cortesi, she married Guiliano Fratellini in 1685 and changed her name to Fratellini.Fortune, Jane, and Linda Falcone. ...

(1666–1731), Baroque painter *

Virginia von Fürstenberg Princess Virginia Maria Clara von und zu Fürstenberg (''Virginia Maria Clara Prinzessin von und zu Fürstenberg''; born 5 October 1974) is an Italian artist, poet, filmmaker, and fashion designer. Early life and family Princess Virginia von ...

(born 1974), fashion designer

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* Margarita Gabassi (mid-18th century), painter *

Anna Galeotti Anna Galeotti (1739–1773) was an Italian engraver and painter. Biography Born in Florence, Galeotti trained under the engraver Cosimo Colombini. She then studied painting under Violante Cerroti. Finally she worked also under Giuseppe Parent ...

(1739–1773), engraver, painter * Fede Galizia (1578–1630), pioneering still life Renaissance painter * Federica Galli (1932–2009), printmaker * Giola Gandini (1906–1941), painter *

Giovanna Garzoni Giovanna Garzoni (1600–1670) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period. She began her career painting religious, mythological, and allegorical subjects but gained fame for her botanical subjects painted in tempera and watercolour.Jordi Vigu ...

(1600–1670), Baroque painter * Francesca Genna (born 1967), printmaker *

Artemisia Gentileschi Artemisia Lomi or Artemisia Gentileschi (, ; 8 July 1593) was an Italian Baroque painter. Gentileschi is considered among the most accomplished seventeenth-century artists, initially working in the style of Caravaggio. She was producing profess ...

(1593–c.1656), Baroque painter * Costanza Ghilini (1754–1775), amateur painter and pastellist *

Caterina Ginnasi Caterina Ginnasi (1590 – 30 November 1660) was an Italian noblewoman and painter of the Baroque period, active mainly in Rome. Ginnasi was orphaned under a young age, and placed in the care of her uncle, Cardinal Domenico Ginnasi, who was the d ...

(1590–1660), Baroque painter * Domiziana Giordano (born 1959), painter, actress, photographer and video artist * Sofia Giordano (1778–1829), painter *

Gisella Giovenco Gisella Giovenco (born Ferrara, 30 January 1946) is an Italian painter, stylist and publicist. Biography Gisella Giovenco was born in 1946 in Ferrara: her father, Onofrio Giovenco (1909-2001), was a Sicilian doctor from Alcamo, while her m ...

(born 1946), painter and stylist * Francesca Grilli (born 1978), visual artist, video maker *

Beatrice Ancillotti Goretti Beatrice Ancillotti Goretti (1879–1937) was an Italian artist who painted in the Renaissance tradition. Family Beatrice Caterina Enrichetta Ancillotti Goretti was born in Florence in 1879 into a family of impassioned liberals. Her maternal ...

(1879–1937), painter *

Rosina Mantovani Gutti Rosina Mantovani Gutti was born in the year of 1851 and passed in 1943. Known as the Daughter of the Ferrara painter Alessandro Mantovani; Gutti entered into the same circles of the Nazarene (sect), Nazarene painter Ludovico Seitz. Rosina Mantova ...

(1851–1943), painter, especially of children

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* Domitilla Harding (fl. late 20th, early 21st century), furniture and fashion designer, also works with glass * Adelita Husni-Bey (born 1985), visual artist, video maker

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* Iaia (116–27 BC), Roman painter, engraver

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* Elisabetta Keller (1891–1969), Italian-born Swiss painter and pastellist *

Kiyohara Tama (1861 – 1939), also known as or ''O'Tama Chiovara'', , or was a Japanese painter who spent most of her life in the Sicilian city of Palermo. Her maiden name was . Biography Kiyohara Tayo was the second daughter of Kiyohara Einosuke, intend ...

(1861–1939), Japanese painter active in Sicily *

Elisa Koch Élisa Koch or Elisa Kock (1833–1914) was an Italian painter and pastellist. Koch was born in Livorno and studied under Louis Janmot and Charles Comte.Giulia Lama (born 1681), painter * Luisa Lambri (born 1969), photographer * Ketty La Rocca (1938–1976), poet, visual artist * Carla Lavatelli (1928–2006), portrait painter, abstract sculptor *

Bice Lazzari Beatrice "Bice" Lazzari (15 November 1900 – 13 November 1981) was an Italian painter. Early life Beatrice Lazzari was born to Lorenzo (Luciano) Lazzari and Francesca Rinaldo. She was the second of three sisters, the youngest of whom, Onorina (N ...

(1900–1981), painter *

Angelica Le Gru Perotti Angelica Le Gru Perotti (1719 – 1 September 1776) was an Italian painter and pastellist of the Rococo period, active at first in Northern Italy and Venice. She was born into a family of painters, including her father, the portraitist Stef ...

(1719–1776), painter *

Vittoria Ligari Vittoria Ligari (14 February 1713 - 9 October 1783) was an Italian painter. Life and work Vittoria Ligari was born in Milan, near San Babila San Babila is a Romanesque-style Roman Catholic church in Milan, region of Lombardy, Italy. It was ...

(1713–1783), painter * Maria Cattarina Locatelli (died 1723), painter * Barbara Longhi (1552–1638), painter

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* Ortensia Poncarale Maggi (1732–1811), painter *

Francesca Magliani Francesca Gambacorta Magliani was an Italian painter, born on July 8, 1845, in Palermo, Kingdom of the Two Sicilies. Biography Magliani studied under private tutors in Palermo, then moved to Florence to study under professors Beducci and Michele ...

(born 1845), painter *

Lilla Maldura Lilla Maldura ( fl. 1876–1887) was a painter, mostly of domestic interiors and church interiors, but also landscapes, in oil and watercolor. Maldura was born in Naples, of an Italian father and a Spanish mother. She studied under professor F ...

(fl. 1876–1887), painter *

Matilde Malenchini Matilde Malenchini, née Meoni (3 December 1779 – 8 September 1858) was an Italian portrait and genre painter in the Academic style. Biography She was born in Livorno. In 1796, she married Vincenzo Francesco Malenchini, a painter and musician ...

(1779–1858), portrait and genre painter *

Ada Mangilli Ada Mangilli (Cento, 23 September 1863 - Florence, 5 March 1935 Antonio P. Torresi, ''Neo-medicei. Pittori, restauratori e copisti dell'Ottocento in Toscana'', Liberty House, Ferrara, 1996, pp. 146-147) was an Italian painter. Biography She st ...

(born 1863), painter *

Anna Morandi Manzolini Anna Morandi Manzolini (21 January 1714 – 9 July 1774) was an internationally known anatomist and anatomical wax modeler, as lecturer of anatomical design at the University of Bologna. Life Morandi was born in 1714 in Bologna, Italy. She wa ...

(1714–1774), anatomist, wax modeler * Faustina Maratti (c.1679–1745), Baroque poet, painter *

Elisabetta Marchioni Elisabetta Marchioni (also spelled Marchionni) (flourished ca. 1700) was a Venetian painter. She specialized in still life paintings of flowers. She worked in Rovigo. There are a number of unsigned paintings depicting "still lives with flowers", ...

(fl. 1700), Venetian painter * Clementina Marcovigi (born 1863), painter *

Virginia Mariani Virginia Mariani, born Virginia Barlocci, (1824–1898) was an Italian painter, active in Rome. She was known for her portraits in watercolors and oils. She also worked in ceramics. Biography Virginia Barlocci studied in Rome with her first husb ...

(1824–1898), painter, ceramist *

Maria Martinetti Maria Martinetti (1864–1921) was an Italian painter. She was a student of Gustavo Simoni. She lived and exhibited in Italy and France. In 1890 she moved to the United States. She is known for her genre paintings. Biography Martinetti was born ...

(1864–1921), painter * Luigia Massari (1810–1898), painter, embroiderer *

Giulia Masucci Fava Giulia Masucci Fava (born 1858, Serino, Province of Avellino) was an Italian painter; she was active mainly in Naples, and is known primarily for figure and genre painting. Biography She studied under direction of the professors Vincenzo Volpe a ...

(born 1858), painter * Isabella Discalzi Mazzoni (fl. late 15th century), sculptor * Margherita Pavesi Mazzoni (1930–2010), painter, sculptor and poet *

Carla Carli Mazzucato Carla Carli Mazzucato (born 2 November 1935) is a 20th-century Italian artist whose contributions to the world of contemporary art helped define the "modern expressionist" movement. Known for her unique style and bold color palette, her paintings ...

(born 1935), contemporary artist *

Marisa Merz Marisa Merz (23 May 1926 – 20 July 2019) was an Italian artist and sculptor."M ...

(1931–2019), sculptor * Giovanna Tacconi Messini (1717–1742), painter * Madonna Fitta de Milano (17th century), painter *

Otonella Mocellin Ottonella Mocellin (born 1966 in Milan) is an Italian photographer and video artist based in Milan. Mocellin works with text, sound installation, performance and site specific projects. Her work is based on issues of identity and human relationsh ...

(born 1966), photographer and video artist * Tina Modotti (1896–1942), photographer, model and actress *

Maria Molin Maria Molin was a Venetian pastellist of the eighteenth century. Little is known of Molin's life or career. The daughter of Marco Molin, a senator of Venice, she is identified in an inscription on one of her works as the wife of Gian Tommaso Balbi ...

(18th century), pastellist *

Eleonora Monti Eleonora Monti (July 20, 1727 – after 1760) was an 18th-century Italian artist best known as a portraitist. She spent much of her career in the city of Brescia, Italy, but is also affiliated with the city of Bologna. She was made an honorary me ...

(1727–1760), painter * Sandra Moreschi (born 1946), designer of Jewish ceremonial art *

Emma Moretto Emma Moretto (19th-century) was an Italian painter, active in Venice painting landscapes and vedute A ''veduta'' (Italian for "view"; plural ''vedute'') is a highly detailed, usually large-scale painting or, more often, print of a cityscape or ...

(19th century), painter * Marisa Mori (1900–1985), Futurist painter and printmaker *

Valentina Murabito Valentina Murabito (born 28 September 1981 in Giarre, Italy) is an Italian photographer and visual artist. Her photographic works are a hybrid between different art forms merging in experimental analog photography. Early life and education V ...

(born 1981), photographer, visual artist

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* Olga Napoli (1903–1955), painter *

Maria Giacomina Nazari Maria Giacomina Nazari (born February 10, 1724) was an Italian painter. Born in Venice, Nazari was the daughter of the painter Bartolomeo Nazari; her brother Nazaro was also a painter. At the start of her career she copied her father's work in bo ...

(born 1724), painter *

Plautilla Nelli Sister Plautilla Nelli (1524–1588) was a self-taught nun-artist and the first ever known female Italian Renaissance painting, Renaissance painter of Florence. She was a nun of the Dominican convent, Dominican convent of St. Catherine of Siena l ...

(1524–1588), nun, early female Renaissance painter *

Dianora Niccolini Dianora Niccolini (born October 1936, Florence, Italy) is a fine art photographer known for her photography of the male nude. She was President of Professional Women Photographers (PWP) from 1979 until 1984. Niccolini's work has had multiple gal ...

(born 1936), photographer *

Elena Nobili Elena Nobili (1833–1900) was an Italian painter, mainly of genre figure paintings. She was born in Florence. Her son, Riccardo Nobili (1859–1939), was also a painter. Among her works are ''Reietti!'' (Exhibition of Turin, 1884); ''Bonaccia ...

(1833–1900), figure painter *

Lila De Nobili Lila De Nobili (September 3, 1916 – February 19, 2002) was an Italian stage designer, costume designer, and fashion illustrator. She was noted for her collaborations with leading stage and opera directors such as Luchino Visconti and Fr ...

(1916–2002), stage designer, costume designer and fashion illustrator * Teresa Boccardi Nuytz (died 1837), pastellist

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* Virginia Oldoini (1837–1899), photographer *

Maria Ormani Maria Ormani degli Albizzi (born 1428, died around 1470), was an Italian Augustinian Hermit nun-scribe and manuscript illustrator. Her real name was Maria di Ormanno degli Albizzi, born in 1428 in Florence. She was the grand-daughter of Rinaldo d ...

(1428–c.1470), manuscript illustrator and nun * Giuseppina Osenga (19th-century), painter * Valentina Guidi Ottobri (artist) (born 1988), artist, curator

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Arcangela Paladini Arcangela Paladini (or Arcangiola Palladini) (Pisa 1599 – Florence 1622) was an Italian painter, singer and poet. Early life and education Arcangela Paladini was the daughter of Florentine painter Filippo Paladini (1544–1616), and a pupil of ...

(1599–1622), painter *

Isabella Parasole Isabella Parasole (ca. 1570 – ca. 1620) was an Italian engraver and woodcutter of the late-Mannerist and early-Baroque periods. She was born and active in Rome. She married the engraver Leonardo Norsini, who took his wife's more distinguished ...

(c.1570–c.1620), wood engraver * Luigia Pascoli (1805–1882), painter *

Francesca Pasquali Francesca Pasquali (born 1980) is an Italian artist. She studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in her native Bologna. Pasquali‘s work can be divided into several cycles of work, recognisable by their titles that often refer to the materials used ...

(born 1980), painter *

Rosalba Pedrina Rosalba Pedrina is an Italian artist and art teacher living in Vicenza, Italy. Biography Rosalba Pedrina was born in Clusone, Italy on 14 August 1944, during the Second World War. She was raised in Povolaro, a small town outside Vicenza in the n ...

(born 1944), painter and teacher *

Itala Pellegrino Itala Pellegrino (born 1865) was an Italian painter; she mainly painted genre and seascapes. Biography Born in Milan, she was a resident of Naples Naples (; it, Napoli ; nap, Napule ), from grc, Νεάπολις, Neápolis, lit=new city. ...

(born 1865), painter *

Cinzia Pellin Cinzia Pellin (born 19 July 1973 in Velletri, Rome) is a contemporary Italian painter and set designer. Art career The women in Pellin's works are show and film stars or, often, fashion models. But also simply “women”, unaware stars of our ...

(born 1973), artist * Lida Persili (19th century), painter * Anna Bacherini Piattoli (1720–1788), painter * Fanny Pieroni-Davenport (late 19th century), painter *

Isabella Piccini Isabella Piccini (born Elisabetta Piccini 1644-1732) was an Italian artist and nun. She worked in the mediums of etching, engraving, and illustration. Life and work Piccini was born in Venice in 1644. Her father was etcher and engraver Giacomo P ...

(1664–1732), engraver * Sara Pichelli (born 1983), comics artist * Margherita Pillini (late 19th century), painter * Ida Pinto-Sezzi (born 1852), painter *

Laura Piranesi Laura Piranesi (1754–1789) was an Italian etcher working in Rome towards the end of the 18th century. She was an active participant in her family's print workshop, run by her father Giovanni Battista Piranesi, an Italian artist, etcher, and ant ...

(1755–1785), engraver * Paola Pivi (born 1971), multimedia artist * Teresa del Po (1649–1716), painter *

Amalia Del Ponte Amalia Del Ponte (born 1936) is an Italian artist and designer. Her work has been praised by critics and art historians such as Guido Ballo, Bruno Munari, Gillo Dorfles, Arturo Schwarz, Francesco Tedeschi, Flaminio Gualdoni and Tommaso Trini. Del ...

(born 1936), multidisciplinary artist *

Carlotta Ida Popert Carlotta Ida Popert (1848 – 1923) was a German-Italian artist. She painted, mainly in watercolor, and also made etchings. Biography Popert was born in Hamburg, and studied there with Friedrich Preller the Elder. She lived in Rome for many ...

(1848–1923), German-Italian painter, etcher * Isabella Maria dal Pozzo (died 1700), painter

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* Rabarama (born 1969), contemporary artist * Baroness Annetta Radovska (19th century), painter * Suor Barbara Ragnoni (15th century), nun, painter * Elvira Raimondi (1866–1920), painter * Carol Rama (1918–2015), painter *

Maria Angelica Razzi Maria Angelica Razzi was an Italian sixteenth century nun and sculptor at Santa Caterina da Siena in Florence. She primarily worked in clay to make devotional terracotta figures. Life Razzi was the second of her immediate family to enter into a D ...

(16th century), nun, sculptor * Emma Gaggiotti Richards (1825–1912), painter * Elisa Rigutini Bulle (born 1859), painter *

Marietta Robusti Marietta Robusti (1560? – 1590) was a Venetian painter of the Renaissance period. She was the daughter of Tintoretto and is sometimes referred to as ''Tintoretta''. Biography The only known primary source for details of Marietta Robusti's lif ...

(c.1560–1590), Renaissance painter * Linda Rocchi (born 1857), painter * Francesca Rognoni-Gratognini (born 1850), landscape painter * Juana Romani (1869–1924), painter *

Lalla Romano Graziella "Lalla" Romano (11 November 1906 in Demonte – 26 June 2001 in Milan) was an Italian novelist, poet, artist and journalist. Life and work Romano was born as Graziella Romano in Demonte in 1906 from a noteworthy Piedmontese fa ...

(1906–2001), novelist, poet, painter and journalist *

Paola Romano Paola Romano (17 September 1951 - 15 September 2021) was an Italian painter and sculptor. Romano was born in Monterotondo, Rome. She began her artistic training in Rome, where she attended classes at the ''Rome University of Fine Arts'' (RUFA). ...

(born 1951), painter and sculptor * Diana de Rosa (1602–1643), painter * Vicenza Giovanna Rovisi (1750–1824), late Baroque and Neoclassical painter

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* Marina Sagona (born 1967), Italian-American artist *

Chiara Samugheo Chiara Samugheo (25 March 1935 – 13 January 2022) was an Italian neorealist photographer and photojournalist. Life and work Samugheo was born in Bari, Italy. She was known as the first female professional photographer in Italy. She photograp ...

(1935–2022), photographer *

Felicità Sartori Felicita Sartori (later von Hoffmann; 7 September 1713 – 24 July 1782) was an Italian painter and pastellist. Life Felicita Sartori was born in Pordenone, the daughter of notary Felice Sartori. Her uncle was Antonio dall'Agata, an engraver ...

(c.1714–1760), painter and pastellist * Beatrice Scaccia (born 1978), painter *

Maria Domenica Scanferla Maria Domenica Scanferla (December 14, 1726 – October 12, 1763) was an Italian painter and pastellist. Born in Padua and sometimes called "Marietta", Scanferla was of modest origin and turned herself to the study of painting when she was twenty ...

(1726–1763), painter and pastellist * Teresa Scannabecchi (1662–1708), Baroque painter *

Lucrezia Scarfaglia Lucrezia Scarfaglia (active 1677–1678) was a Bolognese painter of the 17th century. Almost nothing is known of her life and career save that she was a pupil of Elisabetta Sirani, after whose death she took lessons with Domenico Maria Canuti. She ...

(fl. 1677), painter *

Ida Botti Scifoni Ida Botti Scifoni (Rome, 1812 - Florence, 1844) was an Italians, Italian Painting, painter, Sculpture, sculptor and designer. She was married to Felice Scifoni, and was a teacher and friend of Mathilde Bonaparte, Napoleon’s niece. Life and mar ...

(1812–1844), painter, sculptor and designer *

Diana Scultori Diana Scultori (also known as Diana Mantuana and Diana Ghisi; 1547 – 5 April 1612) was an Italian engraver from Mantua, Italy. She is one of the earliest known women printmakers, making mostly reproductive engravings of well-known paintings or ...

(born 1535), engraver *

Marinella Senatore Marinella Senatore (born 1977) is an Italian visual artist. Exhibitions * 2011 – Museum of Contemporary Art of Rome, Rome, IT * 2012 – Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, D * 2012 – Matadero, Madrid, ES * 2012 – Quad, Derby, UK * 2012 � ...

(born 1977), visual artist *

Floria Sigismondi Floria Sigismondi (, born 1965) is an Italian-Canadian film director, screenwriter, music video director, artist, and photographer. She is best known for writing and directing ''The Runaways'', for directing music videos for performers includin ...

(born 1965), Italian-Canadian photographer *

Luisa Silei Luisa Silei (17 February 1825 – 5 February 1898) was an Italian painter who mainly painted Landscape painting, landscapes. Life Luisa was born and resided in Florence. She studied with Károly Markó the Younger, Carlo Marko. She exhibi ...

(1825–1898), landscape painter *

Roberta Silva Roberta Silva (born 1971, in Trinidad and Tobago) is an artist based in Milan and Lake Garda. Silva attended the Brera Academy of Fine Art where she graduated in 1995. She works mainly with sculpture, installation art, installation and site-speci ...

(born 1971), Trinidad and Tobago-born contemporary artist * Nerina Simi (1890–1987), painter, art teacher * Elisabetta Sirani (1638–1665), Baroque painter * Violante Beatrice Siries (1709–1783), painter * Maria Spanò (born 1843), painter *

Irene di Spilimbergo Irene di Spilimbergo (17 October 1538 - 17 December 1559) was an Italian Renaissance painter and poet. Biography She is mostly known for an effusive volume of poetic elegies published two years after her death by Dionigi Atanagi and containing ...

(1540–1559), Renaissance painter *

Chiara Spinelli Chiara Spinelli later the princess of Belmonte (1744-1823) was an Italian noblewoman and pastellist. Spinelli was born in Naples, the daughter of Troiano, the ninth Duke of Laurino, but who also published in philosophy. In 1762 she married Ant ...

(1744–1823), pastellist * Francesca Stuart Sindici (1858–c.1929), Spanish-Italian painter

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Patrizia Taddei Patrizia Taddei (born 1948) is an Italian-born artist in San Marino. After drawing attention in the early 1970s for her conceptual work, Taddei became known for her painting and sculpture. She has repeatedly represented the microstate of San Marino ...

(born 1948), Italian-born Sammarinese contemporary artist * Celeste Tanfani (fl. 1735), pastellist *

Margherita Terzi Margherita Terzi was a Venice, Venetian pastellist of the eighteenth century. Terzi was related to the Bologna, Bolognese painter Cristoforo Terzi. She is recorded as having been a pupil of Rosalba Carriera, who in 1752 gave the sum of 200 ducats ...

(18th century), pastellist * Caterina Tarabotti (active 1659), Baroque painter * Maria Felice Tibaldi (born 1707), painter * Grazia Toderi (born 1963), video artist and photographer * Lucia Casalini Torelli (1677–1762), painter * Tatiana Trouvé (born 1968), contemporary artist

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* Anna Maria Vaiani (died c.1655), engraver *

Grazia Varisco Grazia Varisco (born 1937 in Milan) is an Italian visual artist and designer. Varisco attended the Brera Academy of Fine Arts in Milan from 1956 to 1960, where she was a student of Achille Funi. In 1960 she joined Giovanni Anceschi, Davide Borian ...

(born 1937), visual artist *

Chiara Varotari Chiara Varotari (1584–1663) was an Italian Baroque painter. Biography Varotari was born in Padua. According to the RKD, Netherlands Institute for Art History (RKD) she was the daughter of Dario Varotari the Elder and the sister of Alessandro ...

(1584–1663), Baroque painter *

Virginia Vezzi Virginia Vezzi, sometimes given as Virginia da Vezzo (1600–1638), was an Italian painter, and the wife of French painter Simon Vouet. Life in Italy Virginia Vezzi was born in Velletri on 24 June 1600 to Plinia Ferri, a midwife, and Pompeo V ...

(1601–1638), painter * Lella Vignelli (1934–2016), designer *

Lauretta Vinciarelli Lauretta Vinciarelli (1943 – August 3, 2011) was an artist, architect, and professor of architecture at the collegiate level. Background and education Born in Arbe, Italy, Lauretta Vinciarelli was the daughter of Alberto and Annunciata Cenci ...

(1943–2011), artist, architect, educator * Teresa Berenice Vitelli (fl. 1706–1729), painter

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* Bettina Werner (born 1965), artist working with salt

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* Maria Zacchè (born 1933), artist specializing in pen and ink drawings *

Gentile Zanardi Gentile Zanardi (late 17th century) was an Italian painter, active in the Baroque period in Bologna. Zanardi was a disciple of Marcantonio Franceschini. Giovanni Paolo Zanardi (active 1658–1669) was Gentile's brother. Her father Giulio (1639� ...

(late 17th century), Baroque painter * Silvia Ziche (born 1967), comic book artist and writer {{Lists of women artists by nationality - Italian women artists, List of Artists Artists