This is a list of women artists who were born in

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

(1924–2014), abstractionist painter * Eleonora Aguiari (born 1973), installation artist *

Angelica Veronica Airola Angelica or Angiola Veronica Airola ( – 1670) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, active mainly in 17th century Genoa. She was a pupil of the painter Domenico Fiasella Domenico Fiasella (12 August 1589 – 19 October 1669) was an Ital ...

(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 Giulia Andreani, born in Venice in 1985, is an Italian artist who lives and works in Paris. She is represented bGalerie Max Hetzler Education Andreani graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice in 2008. She continued her studies in the ...

(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 Sofonisba Anguissola ( – 16 November 1625), also known as Sophonisba Angussola or Sophonisba Anguisciola, was an Italian Renaissance painter born in Cremona to a relatively poor noble family. She received a well-rounded education that ...

(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

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Messina Messina ( , ; ; ; ) is a harbour city and the capital city, 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 216,918 inhabitants ...

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* Simona Atzori (born 1974), painter and dancer born without arms

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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 tr ...

(1974–2008), artist *

Bianca Bagnarelli Bianca Bagnarelli (born 21 May 1988 in Milan, Italy) is an Italian artist, writer, 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 Competi ...

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

Rosa Barba Rosa Barba (born 1972, Agrigento, Italy) is an 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, relate to avant-garde film an ...

(born 1972), installation artist * Helena Barbagelata (born 1991), artist * Eleonora Bargili (18th century), pastellist *

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 li ...

(1935–2022), photographer *

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, so ...

(born 1969), contemporary artist *

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 ...

(1613–1649), Baroque painter * Elisabetta Benato-Beltrami (1813–1888), painter, sculptor * Daniela Benedini (born 1972), contemporary painter * Mirella Bentivoglio (1922–2017), sculptor, poet, performance artist * Laura Bernasconi (fl.1674), Baroque painter * Rosalba Bernini (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 (born 1957), lighting designer *

Rossella Biscotti Rossella Biscotti (born 1978) is an artist whose practice cuts across sculpture, performance, sound works, and filmmaking. She explores and reconstructs social and political moments from recent times through the subjectivity and experiences of ...

(born 1978), visual artist, video maker * Ernesta Legnani Bisi (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 her ...

(1818–1911), painter * Rita Boley Bolaffio (1898–1995), collage artist * Clelia Bompiani (1848–1927), painter *

Monica Bonvicini Monica Bonvicini (born 1965 in Venice) is a German-Italian artist who works with installation, sculpture, video, photography and drawing mediums to explore the relationships between architecture and space, power, gender and sexuality. She is co ...

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

Erma Bossi Erma Bossi (1875–1952) was an Italian painter in the German Expressionist style. 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 the Neu ...

(1875–1952), painter * Luigia Bozzini (19th century), religious painter *

Faustina Bracci Armellini Faustina Bracci Armellini (1785–1857) was an Italian pastellist. Born in Rome, Bracci Armellini was the daughter of , an architect, and granddaughter of the sculptor Pietro Bracci. In 1811 she became a member of the Accademia di San Luca, which ...

(1785–1857), pastellist *

Antonietta Brandeis Antonietta Brandeis (also known as Antonie Brandeisová) (1848–1926), was a Czech lands, Czech-born Italian landscape, genre and portrait painter, as well as a painter of religious subjects for altarpieces. Early life She was born on Ja ...

(1848–1926), painter * Nina Breeder (born 1982), contemporary artist * Plautilla Bricci (1616–1690), architect, painter *

Fatma Bucak Fatma Bucak (born 1984) is an artist and photographer who lives and works in London and Istanbul. Biography She was born in Turkey, to a Kurdish family. She works in a variety of media, including photography, performance, sound, multimedia, an ...

(born 1984), contemporary artist * Eufrasia Burlamacchi (1482–1548), manuscript illuminator * Angiola Guglielma Butteri (died 1676), nun, painter

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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, she ...

(1596–1676), nun, religious painter *

Margherita Caffi Margherita Caffi (1650 – 20 September 1710) was an Italian painter of still lifes of flowers and fruit. She was born Margherita Volo, in Milan to Francesco Volo (a still-life painter himself) and his wife, Veronica. In 1668, she married Ludivi ...

(1650–1710), flower painter * Maria Callani (1778–1803), 18th century portrait painter, active in

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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 Milena Canonero (born 13 July 1946) is an Italian costume designer, production designer, and film producer. In a career spanning over five decades, she is recognized for her prolific work across stage and screen. She has received numerous accolad ...

(born 1946), costume designer * Ginevra Cantofoli (c.1608/1618–1672), Baroque painter * Sister Luisa Capomazza (c.1600–1646), painter *

Benedetta Cappa Benedetta Cappa (14 August 1897 – 15 May 1977) was an Italian futurist artist who has had retrospectives at the Walker Art Center and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. Her work fits within the second phase of Italian Futurism. Biography Be ...

(1897–1977), futurist artist * Antonella Cappuccio (born 1944), costume designer * Ghitta Carell (1899–1972), Hungarian-born Italian photographer *

Shola Carletti Shola Mara Carletti (born in Pesaro; 21st century) is an Italian painter, sculptor and former graphic designer, best known for her abstract art, abstract and modern art inspired by Religion in India, spirituality in India, and New religious movem ...

( 21st century), painter and sculptor, active in

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* Marianna Carlevarijs (1703–1750), painter and pastellist *

Rosalba Carriera Rosalba Carriera (12 January 1673 – 15 April 1757) was an Italians, Italian Rococo painter. In her younger years, she specialized in portrait miniatures. Carriera would later become known for her pastel portraits, helping popularize the medium ...

(1673–1757), painter * Maria Vittoria Cassana (died 1711), painter *

Caterina Amigoni Castellini Caterina Amigoni Castellini () was an Italian pastellist living in the History of Spain (1700–1808), Spanish Empire. Castellini was the daughter of Venetian painter Jacopo Amigoni; after his 1738 marriage to mezzo-soprano Maria Antonia Marchesi ...

(18th century), pastellist *

Beatrice Catanzaro Beatrice Catanzaro (born 1975) is an Italian-Swedish artist known for her long term socially engaged art practice and exploring issues such as migration and cultural exchange. She has also worked as a professor. Biography Catanzaro was born in ...

(born 1975), conceptual artist * Catherine of Bologna (1413–1463), nun, artist, saint * Nicoletta Ceccoli (born 1973),

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illustrator * Giulia Centurelli (1832–1872), painter and poet * Maria Suppioti Ceroni (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 D ...

(born 1955), painter * Caterina Cherubini (died 1811), miniaturist *

Amalia Ciardi Dupré Amalia Ciardi Duprè (1934 – 25 November 2024) was 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 Amal ...

(1934–2024), sculptor and painter *

Emma Ciardi Emma Ciardi (1879–1933) was an Italian painter. Biography Ciardi was born in Venice. Following in the footsteps of her father Guglielmo and brother Beppe, Emma Ciardi began painting as an adolescent and exhibited for the first time in 1900 at ...

(1879–1933), painter * Barbara Ciardo (born 1983), comic book colorist * Vittoria Cocito (1891–1971), painter and illustrator *

Marina Cicogna ''Contessa'' Marina Cicogna Mozzoni Volpi di Misurata (29 May 1934 – 4 November 2023) was an Italian film producer and photographer. She produced the film '' Belle de Jour'', which won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival in 1967. Earl ...

(1934–2023), film producer and photographer *

Maria Giovanna Clementi Maria Giovanna Clementi (1692–1761), called la Clementina, was an Italian painter, specializing in portraits.Griseri, Andreina"Clementi, Maria Giovanna Battista, detta la Clementina" ''Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani'', vol 26 (1982). Bio ...

(1692–1761), portrait painter *

Daniela Comani Daniela Comani (born 4 February 1965 in Bologna, Italy) is an Italian artist. Since 1989, she has lived in Berlin, Germany. Biography Comani received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the Accademia di Belle Arti in Bologna, Italy (1988) and ...

(born 1965), multimedia artist * Theresa Maria Coriolano (1620–1671), engraver * Maddalena Corvina (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 Gorizia (; ; , ; ; ) is a town and (municipality) in northeastern Italy, in the aut ...

(1924–1984), painter, collagist *

Maria Cosway Maria Luisa Caterina Cecilia Cosway (ma-RYE-ah; née Hadfield; 11 June 1760 – 5 January 1838) was an Italian-English painter, musician, and educator. She worked in England, France, and later Italy, cultivating a large circle of friends and cli ...

(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 (c.1498–c.1573), painter, writer *

Caterina Davinio Caterina Davinio (born Maria Caterina Invidia; 25 November 1957, Foggia) is an Italian poet, novelist and new media artist. She is the author of works of digital art, net.art, video art and was the creator of Italian Net-poetry in 1998. Biograph ...

(born 1957), poet, novelist, new media artist * Elena de' Grimani (born 1975), comic book artist and illustrator *

Lotus de Païni Baroness Lotus de Païni (née Elvezia Giulia Maria Gazzotti; 28 November 1862 – 22 July 1953) was an Italian painter, sculptor, writer, and occultist. She also used the names L. E. De Paini, Lotus Gazzotti, and Lotus Péralté. Early life ...

(1862–1953) painter, writer, sculptor, and occultist * Yvonne De Rosa (born 1975), photographer *

Marianna Candidi Dionigi Marianna Candidi Dionigi (1756-1826) born in Rome, was an Italian painter, writer and salonnière who took an interest in archaeology. She wrote archaeological descriptions of buildings and monuments during a journey in Lazio. Biography Dionigi w ...

(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 Q ...

(1754–1827), nun, poet, painter * Agnese Dolci (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. Biography Valentina D'Urbano was born in Rome in 1985, where she live ...

(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 *

(1934–2024), 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 mo ...

(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 dau ...

(c.1590–1651), painter * Teresa Fioroni-Voigt (1799–1880), painter of miniatures *

Eva Fischer Eva Fischer (Daruvar, 19 November 1920 – Rome, 7 July 2015) was a Croatia-born Italy, Italian artist who worked in oils, watercolours, engraving and lithography. Life and work Eva Fischer was born in Daruvar (present-day Croatia) in 1920. ...

(1920–2015), Croatian-born Italian painter and engraver *

Lavinia Fontana Lavinia Fontana (24 August 1552–11 August 1614) was an Italian Mannerist painter active in Bologna and Rome. She is best known for her successful portraiture, but also worked in the genres of mythology and religious painting. She was trained ...

(1552–1614), early professional 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 *

Chiara Fumai Chiara Fumai (1978–2017) was an Italian performance artist. Life and career Born in Rome, Fumai graduated in architecture from Polytechnic University of Milan, and had her breakout in 2013, winning Furla Prize with a performance based on a w ...

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Virginia von Fürstenberg Princess Virginia Maria Clara von und zu Fürstenberg (''Virginia Maria Clara Prinzessin von und zu Fürstenberg''; 5 October 1974 – 10 May 2023) was an Italian artist, poet, filmmaker, and fashion designer. Early life and family Princess ...

(1974–2023), fashion designer

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* Margarita Gabassi (mid-18th century), painter * Anna Galeotti (1739–1773), engraver, painter *

Fede Galizia Fede Galizia, better known as Galizia, ( 1578 – 1630) was an Italian painter of still-lifes, portraits, and religious pictures. She is especially noted as a painter of still-lifes of fruit, a genre in which she was one of the earliest practiti ...

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

Giovanna Garzoni Giovanna Garzoni (1600 – February 1670) was an Italian Baroque painter. She began her career painting religious, mythological, and allegorical subjects but gained fame for her still life botanical subjects painted in tempera and watercolour.Jo ...

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

Artemisia Gentileschi Artemisia Lomi Gentileschi ( ; ; 8 July 1593) was an Italian Baroque painter. Gentileschi is considered among the most accomplished 17th century, 17th-century artists, initially working in the style of Caravaggio. She was producing professional ...

(1593–c.1656), Baroque painter *

Costanza Ghilini Costanza Ghilini (1754–1775) was an Italian amateur painter. Born in 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 ...

(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 ...

(1590–1660), Baroque painter *

Domiziana Giordano Domiziana Giordano (born 4 September 1959) is an Italian artist, actress, photographer, and video artist. Giordano has played roles in work directed by Mauro Bolognini, Jean-Luc Godard, Neil Jordan, Ken McMullen, Nicolas Roeg, and Andrei Tarko ...

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

Gisella Giovenco Gisella Giovenco (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 mother ...

(born 1946), painter and stylist * Francesca Grilli (born 1978), visual artist, video maker * Beatrice Ancillotti Goretti (1879–1937), painter *

Camilla Guerrieri Camilla Guerrieri (1628 – after 1693) was an Italian painter. She is believed to have worked as the first court painter for the House of Medici. Life and career Camilla Guerrieri was born 1628, in Fossombrone, Duchy of Urbino (now Italy). ...

(1628–after 1693),

court painter A court painter was an artist who painted for the members of a royal or princely family, sometimes on a fixed salary and on an exclusive basis where the artist was not supposed to undertake other work. Painters were the most common, but the cour ...

* Rosina Mantovani Gutti (1851–1943), painter, especially of children

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Domitilla Harding Domitilla Harding (formerly Getty) is an Italian designer and artist. Early life Domitilla Harding was born and raised in Rome. She is the daughter of John Harding, publisher, author and screenwriter, and '' Donna'' Lavinia Lante della Rovere. ...

(fl. late 20th, early 21st century), furniture and fashion designer, also works with glass *

Adelita Husni-Bey Adelita Husni-Bey (born 1985) is an Italian-Libyan visual artist. She made the film ''Postcards from the Desert Island'' (2011). She was awarded the 2023 Black Mountain College prize. Husni-Bey was also a 2020-2022 fellow at the Vera List Center ...

(born 1985), visual artist, video maker

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Iaia Iaia of Cyzicus (), sometimes (incorrectly) called Lala or Lalla, or rendered as Laia or Maia, was a Greek painter born in Cyzicus, Roman Empire, and relatively exceptional for being a woman artist and painting women's portraits. She was alive d ...

(116–27 BC), Roman painter, engraver

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Elisabetta Keller Elisabetta Keller, also known as Elisabeth Keller, (6 July 1891 – 19 February 1969) was a Swiss artist born in Italy and a founder of the Italian Soroptimist Club. Keller worked in many media, but preferred pastels. Though she created landsc ...

(1891–1969), Italian-born Swiss painter and pastellist * Kiyohara Tama (1861–1939), Japanese painter active in Sicily * Elisa Koch (1833–1914), painter, pastellist

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Giulia Lama Giulia Elisabetta Lama (1 October 1681 – 8 October 1747) was an Italian painter active in Venice during the late Baroque period. Her dark, intense style contrasted with the dominant pastel tones of the era. She was one of the first female arti ...

(1681–1747), painter * Luisa Lambri (born 1969), photographer *

Ketty La Rocca Ketty La Rocca (14 July 1938 – 7 February 1976) was an Italian artist during the 1960s and 70s. She was a leading exponent of body art and visual poetry movements. Nowadays, The Estate Ketty La Rocca is managed by her son, Michelangelo Vast ...

(1938–1976), poet, visual artist * Carla Lavatelli (1928–2006), portrait painter, abstract sculptor * Bice Lazzari (1900–1981), painter * Angelica Le Gru Perotti (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, in February 1713. Her mother was Nunziata Steiningher and her father was Pietro Ligari. She died in ...

(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 (born 1845), painter * Lilla Maldura (fl. 1876–1887), painter * Matilde Malenchini (1779–1858), portrait and genre painter * Ada Mangilli (1863–1935), painter *

Anna Morandi Manzolini Anna Morandi Manzolini (21 January 1714 – 9 July 1774) was an Italian anatomist, anatomical wax modeler, and lecturer of anatomical design at the University of Bologna. She became internationally known for the production of anatomical wax mode ...

(1714–1774), anatomist, wax modeler * Faustina Maratti (c.1679–1745), Baroque poet, painter * Elisabetta Marchioni (fl. 1700), Venetian painter * Clementina Marcovigi (1863–1887), painter * Virginia Mariani (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 ...

(born 1858), painter * Isabella Discalzi Mazzoni (fl. late 15th century), sculptor * Margherita Pavesi Mazzoni (1930–2010), painter, sculptor and poet * Carla Carli Mazzucato (born 1935), contemporary artist *

Marisa Merz Marisa Merz (née Maria Luisa Truccato 23 May 1926 – 20 July 2019) was an Italian artist and sculptor.

(1931–2019), sculptor * Giovanna Tacconi Messini (1717–1742), painter * Madonna Fitta de Milano (17th century), painter * Ottonella Mocellin (born 1966), photographer and video artist *

Tina Modotti Tina Modotti (born Assunta Adelaide Luigia Modotti Mondini, August 16/17, 1896 – January 5, 1942) was an Italian American photographer, model, actor, and revolutionary political activist for the Comintern. She left her native Italy in 1913 a ...

(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 Balb ...

(18th century), pastellist * Eleonora Monti (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'' (; : ''vedute'') is a highly detailed, usually large-scale painting or, more often, print of a cityscape or some other vista. The ...

(19th century), painter *

Marisa Mori Marisa Mori (March 9, 1900 – March 6, 1985) was an Italian painter and printmaking, printmaker. She was one of the few female artists in the Futurism movement. Early life and education Marisa Mori was born in Florence as Maria Luisa Luri ...

(1900–1985), Futurist painter and printmaker * Valentina Murabito (born 1981), photographer, visual artist

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* Olga Napoli (1903–1955), painter * Maria Giacomina Nazari (born 1724), painter *

Plautilla Nelli Sister Plautilla Nelli (1524–1588) was a self-taught nun-artist and the first ever known female Renaissance painter of Florence. She was a nun of the Dominican convent of St. Catherine of Siena located in Piazza San Marco, Florence, and was h ...

(1524–1588), nun, early female Renaissance painter * Dianora Niccolini (born 1936), photographer * Elena Nobili (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 Fra ...

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

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Virginia Oldoini Virginia Oldoini Rapallini, Countess of Castiglione (23 March 1837 – 28 November 1899), better known as La Castiglione, was an Italian aristocrat who achieved notoriety as a mistress of Emperor Napoleon III of France. She was also a significant ...

(1837–1899), photographer *

Maria Ormani Maria Ormani (born Maria di Ormanno degli Albizzi; 1428 - ), was an Italian Augustinian Hermit nun-scribe and manuscript illustrator. She was the grand-daughter of Rinaldo degli Albizzi, leader of the aristocratic Guelph party of Republic of Flo ...

(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 (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 also known as Isabella Catanea Parasole and Isabetta Catanea Parasole. She was active in Rome in the late sixteenth a ...

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

(born 1973), artist * Lida Persili (19th century), painter *

Anna Bacherini Piattoli Anna Bacherini Piattoli (1720, Florence – 1788, Florence) was an Italian painter. Biography She studied with Francesco Ciaminghi (?-1736), Francesco Conti, and Violante Beatrice Siries.

(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 Sara Pichelli (born 15 April 1983) is an Italian comics artist best known for co-creating and first illustrating the Spider-Man (Miles Morales), Miles Morales version of ''Ultimate Spider-Man''. After starting her career in animation, Pichelli en ...

(born 1983), comics artist * Margherita Pillini (late 19th century), painter *

Ida Pinto-Sezzi Ida Pinto-Sezzi (1852 in Florence – ?) was an Italian painter. She was a resident of Florence. At the 1882 Promotrice, she exhibited ''Ciociara''; in 1887, ''A Friar Cook''. In 1887 at Venice, she exhibited ''La Zingara'', depicting a fortu ...

(born 1852), painter * Laura Piranesi (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. D ...

(born 1936), multidisciplinary artist * Carlotta Ida Popert (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 Suor Barbara Ragnoni (1448–1533)Nouvelles sources et nouvelles méthodologies de recherche dans les études sur les femmes, Harmattan, 2004 was an Italian artist for whom only one work remains extant. Her signed painting, ''The Adoration of th ...

(1448–1533), nun, painter * Elvira Raimondi (1866–1920), painter *

Carol Rama Carol Rama (born Olga Carolina Rama; 17 April 1918 – 25 September 2015) was an Italian self-taught artist. Her painting encompassed an erotic, and sexual identity with specific references to female sensuality. She began to paint around the m ...

(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 Emma Gaggiotti Richards (1825 – 1912) was an Italian painter who was active in the United Kingdom. She completed five paintings for Queen Victoria and Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Prince Albert. Life She was the daughter of Camillo ...

(1825–1912), painter * Elisa Rigutini Bulle (born 1859), painter *

Marietta Robusti Marietta Robusti (1560? – 1590) was a Venice, Venetian painter of the Renaissance period. She was the daughter of Tintoretto (Jacobo Robusti) and sometimes, is referred to as ''Tintoretta''. Biography Robusti is mentioned briefly in ''Il Rip ...

(c.1560–1590), Renaissance painter * Linda Rocchi (born 1857), painter * Francesca Rognoni-Gratognini (1850–1938), landscape painter *

Juana Romani Juana Romani (born Carolina Giovanna Carlesimo; 30 April 1867 – 13 June 1923) was an Italian-born French portrait painter and artists' model. Biography She was born in Velletri (Latium, Italie) on April 30, 1867. At the age of ten, she m ...

(1869–1924), painter * Lalla Romano (1906–2001), novelist, poet, painter and journalist * Paola Romano (1951–2021), painter and sculptor *

Valentina Romeo Valentina Romeo (also known by the diminutive, Val Romeo; Messina, 30 October 1977) is an Italian cartoonist, illustrator, and billiards player. Biography She attended the in Naples, where she later worked as an illustrator on some projects for ...

(born 1977), cartoonist, illustrator *

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 ...

(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 (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 (1726–1763), painter and pastellist *

Teresa Scannabecchi Angiola Teresa Moratori Scanabecchi (1662 – 19 April 1708) was an Italian composer and painter. Biography Angiola Moratori was born in Bologna, the daughter of a Bolognese physician, and married Tomaso Scanabecchi Monetta. She studied instrument ...

(1662–1708), Baroque painter * Lucrezia Scarfaglia (fl. 1677), painter *

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

(1812–1844), painter, sculptor and designer * Diana Scultori (1535–1612), engraver * Marinella Senatore (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 includ ...

(born 1965), Italian-Canadian photographer * Luisa Silei (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 Sculpture is the branch of the visua ...

(born 1971), Trinidad and Tobago-born contemporary artist * Nerina Simi (1890–1987), painter, art teacher *

Elisabetta Sirani Elisabetta Sirani (8 January 1638 – 28 August 1665) was an Italian Baroque painter and printmaker who died in unexplained circumstances at the age of 27. She was one of the first women artists in early modern Bologna, who became a successful p ...

(1638–1665), Baroque painter *

Violante Beatrice Siries Violante Beatrice Siries (1709–1783) was an Italian painter. She was born in Florence and studied with Giovanna Fratellini and the sculptor Filippo della Valle. After moving to Paris in 1726 she studied under Hyacinthe Rigaud and François Bou ...

(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 2 ...

(1540–1559), Renaissance painter *

Chiara Spinelli Chiara Spinelli (1744-1823), later the Princess of Belmonte, was an Italian noblewoman and artist, especially noted as a pastellist. Spinelli was born in Naples, the daughter of Troiano, the ninth Duke of Laurino, who also published in philosoph ...

(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 (18th century), pastellist *

Caterina Tarabotti Caterina Agnese Tarabotti (baptised 15 June 1615 – 8 February 1693) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period. She was born in Venice, and a pupil of Alessandro Varotari Alessandro Leone Varotari (4 April 1588 – 20 July 1649), als ...

(active 1659), Baroque painter * Maria Felice Tibaldi (1707–1770), painter *

Grazia Toderi Grazia Toderi is an Italian artist working primarily in the medium of video art. Born in Padua, and trained in painting at the Academy of Fine Arts, Bologna, Toderi began working in the medium of media and video art in the 1990s. Currently wor ...

(born 1963), video artist and photographer *

Lucia Casalini Torelli Lucia Casalini Torelli (1677–1762) was an Italian painter, active in Bologna. The wife of painter Felice Torelli (and, through him, sister-in-law of violinist and composer Giuseppe Torelli), she was the mother of painter Stefano Torelli. S ...

(1677–1762), painter *

Tatiana Trouvé Tatiana Trouvé (born 4 August, 1968) is a French-Italian visual artist based in Paris. She works on large-scale installations, sculptures, and drawings. Her artwork contemplates "the uncertain boundary between fiction and reality, the mental ...

(born 1968), contemporary artist

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* Anna Maria Vaiani (died c.1655), engraver * Grazia Varisco (born 1937), visual artist *

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

(1584–1663), Baroque painter * Virginia Vezzi (1601–1638), painter *

Lella Vignelli Lella Vignelli (born Elena Valle; August 13, 1934 – December 22, 2016) was an Italian architect, designer, and businesswomen. She collaborated closely throughout much of her life with her husband Massimo Vignelli, with whom she founded Vignel ...

(1934–2016), designer *

Lauretta Vinciarelli Lauretta Vinciarelli (August 2, 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 Annu ...

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

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Bettina Werner Bettina Werner (born in 1965, in Milan, Italy) is an Italian artist based in New York City. She has created artwork with her colorized salt technique since the early 1980s. Werner became an American citizen in July 2010 and now bears dual citize ...

(born 1965), artist working with salt

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Maria Zacchè Maria Zacchè (born 25 February 1935 in Mantua) is an Italian artist. She is mostly specializes in pen and ink drawings representing historical buildings, although she is also known for her allegories and religious images. Biography Maria Zac ...

(born 1933), artist specializing in pen and ink drawings * Gentile Zanardi (late 17th century), Baroque painter *

Silvia Ziche Silvia Ziche (; born 5 July 1967) is an Italian comic book artist and writer, known for her work in Disney comics for the Italian comic digest ''Topolino''. Biography Ziche was born in Thiene. Ziche has also worked on the magazines '' Linus,'' ...

(born 1967), comic book artist and writer * Laura Zuccheri (born 1971), comic artist, illustrator, and painter {{DEFAULTSORT:Italian women artists - Italian women artists, List of

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