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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 * Mari ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Italy
Italy, officially the Italian Republic, is a country in Southern Europe, Southern and Western Europe, Western Europe. It consists of Italian Peninsula, a peninsula that extends into the Mediterranean Sea, with the Alps on its northern land border, as well as List of islands of Italy, nearly 800 islands, notably Sicily and Sardinia. Italy shares land borders with France to the west; Switzerland and Austria to the north; Slovenia to the east; and the two enclaves of Vatican City and San Marino. It is the List of European countries by area, tenth-largest country in Europe by area, covering , and the third-most populous member state of the European Union, with nearly 59 million inhabitants. Italy's capital and List of cities in Italy, largest city is Rome; other major cities include Milan, Naples, Turin, Palermo, Bologna, Florence, Genoa, and Venice. The history of Italy goes back to numerous List of ancient peoples of Italy, Italic peoples—notably including the ancient Romans, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Pippa Bacca
Giuseppina Pasqualino di Marineo (December 9, 1974 – March 31, 2008), known as Pippa Bacca, was an Italian performance and feminist artist. On March 31, 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 wedding dresses during their trek. On April 11, 2008, the police arrested a man who later confessed to her murder and led the authorities to the discovery of her body. Biography Early life Pippa Bacca was born in Milan on December 9, 1974, as Giuseppina Valeria Laura Maria Pasqualino di Marineo. Her father, Guido Pasqualino di Marineo, was originally from Naples and descended from Neapolitan nobility. Her mother, Elena Manzoni dei Conti di Chiosca e Poggiolo, likewise came from an affluent noble family of Sicilian origin. Baccas' mother was the older sister of the artist Piero Manzon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
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 may refer to: People and fictional characters * Laura (given name), including lists of people and fictional characters with the name * Laura, muse of Petrarch's poetry * Laura, the British code name for the World War I Belgian spy Marthe Cnockaert Places Australia * Laura, Queensland, a town on the Cape York Peninsula * Laura, South Australia, a town * Laura Bay, a bay on Eyre Peninsula * Laura River (Queensland) * Laura River (Western Australia) Italy * Laura (Capaccio), a village of the municipality of Capaccio, Campania * Laura, Crespina Lorenzana, a village in Tuscany United States * Laura, Illinois, an unincorporated community * Laura, Kentucky, an unincorporated community * Laura, Missouri, an unincorporated community * Laura, Ohio, a village Elsewhere * Laura, Saskatchewan, Canada, a hamlet * Laura, Marshall Islands, a town * Laura, Silesian Voivodeship, Poland, a village * Laura River (Romania) * 467 Laura, an asteroid Arts and entertainment Art * ''Laura' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
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] [Amazon] |
Daniela Benedini
Daniela Benedini (born May 24, 1972, in Desio, Italy) is an Italian painter and decorator who specializes in ''trompe-l'œil'' art. Artistic background 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''. 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 Peru, officially the Republic of Peru, is a country in western South America. It is bordered in the north by Ecuador and Colombia, in the east by Brazil, in the southeast by Bolivia, in the south by Chile, and in the south and west by the Pac ...). * ''Velo Damascato'', 2009, Basilica di Desio (Italia) * ''Favole in Ospedale'', 1997, Ospedal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Elisabetta Benato-Beltrami
Elisabetta is an Italian feminine given name related to Elizabeth (given name), Elizabeth. * Elisabetta Artuso (born 1974), Italian former middle distance runner * Elisabetta Barbato (1921–2014), Italian operatic soprano * Elisabetta Casellati (born 1946), Italian politician and the first Italian woman president of the Italian Senate * Elisabetta Dami (born 1958), Italian children's books author, creator of the character Geronimo Stilton * Elisabetta de Gambarini (1730–1765), English composer, mezzo-soprano, organist, harpsichordist, pianist, orchestra conductor and painter * Elisabetta Gardini (born 1956), Italian politician, TV presenter and actress * Elisabetta Gonzaga (1471–1526), Italian noblewoman renowned for her cultured and virtuous life * Elisabetta Grimani (died 1792), wife of the last Doge of Venice * Elisabetta Keller (1891–1969), Swiss painter * Elisabetta Querini (1628–1709), wife of the Doge of Venice by marriage * Elisabetta Sanna (1788–1857), Italian Rom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Aniella Di Beltrano
Aniella di Beltrano (1613–1649), also known as Diana de Rosa or Anniella di Rosa, 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 Agostino Beltrano (between 1614 and 1618 – 1665) was an Italian painter active in the Baroque period in his native city of Naples. He was a pupil of Massimo Stanzione, the uncle of his wife, and is known to have been active in 1646. He is said ... (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 portrait of ''San Biago'' in the church of the Sanità. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Vanessa Beecroft
Vanessa Beecroft (born April 25, 1969) is an Italian-born American contemporary art, 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 s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
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 i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Eleonora Bargili
Eleanora or Eleonora may refer to: People * Eleanora (name) * Eleonora, three 17th century Swedish queens consort * Countess Palatine Eleonora Catherine of Zweibrücken (1626–1692), Swedish princess * Eleonora Luisa Gonzaga (1686–1741), Duchess of Rovere and Montefeltro as the wife of Francesco Maria de' Medici * Eleonora, Princess of Ligne (born 1953), wife of Michel, 14th Prince of Ligne * Eleanora Atherton (1782–1870), English philanthropist * Eleonora Chiavarelli (1915–2010), wife of murdered Italian politician Aldo Moro * Eleonora Duse (1858–1924), Italian actress, often known simply as Duse * Eleonora Dziękiewicz (born 1978), Polish volleyball player * Eleonora Ehrenbergová (1832–1912), Czech operatic soprano * Eleanora Fagan (1915–1959), birth name of American jazz singer Billie Holiday * Ulrika Eleonora of Sweden (1688–1741), Queen of Sweden Other uses * "Eleonora" (short story), by Edgar Allan Poe * Eleanora, principal woman's role in Strindberg's 1901 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Helena Barbagelata
Helena Barbagelata (; born 1991) is an Italian–Israelis, Israeli model, multidisciplinary artist, writer, researcher and activist. Life and career Since 2009, she has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions. As an eclectic artist, her activity spans the fields of Painting, Sculpture, Dance, Music, Performance, Film and Literature. In 2024, she exhibited her film ''Hospice of Dry Words'' and her multimedia project ''Voices of Resilience'' at Versopolis, with the support of the European Commission, Creative Europe Programme, she took part in PoetryExpo 24 and her artworks were featured in Florence Contemporary Gallery's ''55 Artists to Discover in 2024''. She exhibited her series Fessures in Palermo, Italy, in the group exhibition "Rooting our Cities" promoted by Artists for Plants in collaboration with the Botanical Garden of the University of Palermo. In 2023, she exhibited her mixed-media series ''Untamed Skin'', in Laguna Beach, California at Las Laguna A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |