![Sister Barbara Ragnoni - Adoration of the Shepherds in the Fine Arts Museum of Siena](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/be/Sister_Barbara_Ragnoni_-_Adoration_of_the_Shepherds_in_the_Fine_Arts_Museum_of_Siena.jpg)
Suor Barbara Ragnoni (1448–1533)
[Nouvelles sources et nouvelles méthodologies de recherche dans les études sur les femmes, Harmattan, 2004] was an Italian
artist
An artist is a person engaged in an activity related to creating art, practicing the arts, or demonstrating an art. The common usage in both everyday speech and academic discourse refers to a practitioner in the visual arts only. However, th ...
for whom only one work remains extant.
Her signed painting, ''The Adoration of the Shepherds'', is now in the Pinacoeteca of
Siena
Siena ( , ; lat, Sena Iulia) is a city in Tuscany, Italy. It is the capital of the province of Siena.
The city is historically linked to commercial and banking activities, having been a major banking center until the 13th and 14th centuri ...
. The style of the painting, with its warm colors, is very much in keeping with the late quattrocento style.
References
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Women Painters of the World
''Women Painters of the World, from the time of Caterina Vigri, 1413–1463, to Rosa Bonheur and the present day'', assembled and edited by Walter Shaw Sparrow, lists an overview of prominent women painters up to 1905, the year of publication.
Th ...
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Italian women painters
Year of death unknown
Year of birth unknown
15th-century Italian painters
15th-century women artists
1448 births
1533 deaths
Nuns and art
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