Aniella di Beltrano (1613–1649), also known as

Diana de Rosa Diana de Rosa (1602–1643), also known as Annella de Rosa, Annella di Massimo, Anniella di Rosa, or Aniella di Beltrano, was a seventeenth-century Neapolitan painter. Early life Diana was born in Naples in 1602 to Caterina de Mauro and the pa ...

or Anniella di Rosa, was an Italian woman painter of the

Baroque The Baroque ( , , ) is a Western Style (visual arts), style of Baroque architecture, architecture, Baroque music, music, Baroque dance, dance, Baroque painting, painting, Baroque sculpture, sculpture, poetry, and other arts that flourished from ...

period, active in

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. She trained with

Massimo Stanzione Massimo Stanzione (also called Stanzioni; Frattamaggiore 1585 – Naples 1656) was an Italian Baroque painter, mainly active in Naples, where he and his rival Jusepe de Ribera dominated the painting scene for several decades. He was primarily a ...

, 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.Le belle arti
Volumes 1-2, By Giovanni Battista Gennaro Grossi, Tipografia del Giornale Enciclopedico, Strada del Salvadore a Sant'Angelo a Nilo #48, Naples (1820); page 223.

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* 1613 births 1649 deaths 17th-century Italian painters 17th-century women painters 17th-century Italian women artists Italian women painters Italian Baroque painters Painters from Naples People murdered in the 1640s Artists from the Kingdom of Naples {{Italy-painter-17thC-stub