
Maria Felice Tibaldi (1707–1770) was an Italian painter. She was born in
Rome
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, established_date = 753 BC
, founder = King Romulus (legendary)
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.
Life
She painted portraits and historical subjects in oil and pastel, including
portrait miniatures
A portrait miniature is a miniature portrait painting, usually executed in gouache, watercolor, or enamel. Portrait miniatures developed out of the techniques of the miniatures in illuminated manuscripts, and were popular among 16th-century el ...
, among them, ''Bacchus and Ariadne'' and ''
Angelica and Medoro
Angelica and Medoro was a popular subject for Romantic painters, composers and writers from the 16th until the 19th century. Angelica and Medoro are two characters from the 16th-century Italian epic '' Orlando Furioso'' by Ludovico Ariosto. Ang ...
''. She married the painter
Pierre Subleyras
Pierre Subleyras (; November 25, 1699 – May 28, 1749) was a French painter, active during the late- Baroque and early- Neoclassic period, mainly in Italy.
Life
Subleyras was born in Saint-Gilles-du-Gard, France.
He left France in 1728, havi ...
in 1739.
Women painters of the world, from the time of Caterina Vigri, 1413-1463, to Rosa Bonheur and the present day
', by Walter Shaw Sparrow, The Art and Life Library, Hodder & Stoughton, 27 Paternoster Row, London, 1905
Her sisters, Teresa and Isabela were also artists in the same genre.
Her ''Dinner at the House of the Pharisee'' was included in the 1905 book ''
Women Painters of the World''. The image was accompanied with the quote "Mary Magdalene at the feet of Jesus Christ in the house of Simon the Pharisee, after the painting in Rome in the Galleria Capitolina. It is a copy after a picture by the artist's husband, Pierre Subleyras, a picture now in the Louvre, Paris. Maria Tibaldi Subleyras presented this copy to Pope Benedict XIV, who sent her a thousand scudi, and placed her work in his collection at the capitol."
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1707 births
1770 deaths
18th-century Italian painters
18th-century Italian women artists
Painters from Rome
Portrait miniaturists
Italian women painters
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