Sofonisba Anguissola
1532 –1625
Mannerist Painter
Artistically and stylistically influenced by the following painters; - Fra Fillippo, Agnolo Bronzino, Andrea del Verrocchio, Piero della Francesca, and Francesco Traini
Education: she studied under Antonio Campi and Bernardino Campi
Cause of Death - she died of Old Age. "Though deprived of sight in her latter years, she retained to the last her other faculties, her love of art, and her relish for the society of its professors."
One of the Greatest Painters Of All Time
Mediums - painting
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Biography
Sofonisba
Anguissola
lived an amazing life
filled with art,
laughter, court intrigue
and romantic passion.
One of the great
beauties of her day she
married several
times..always for love.
Up until her early 80s
entertained gentleman
callers in her art
filled love nest. Her
portraits are fresh and
intriguing even after
450 years. According to art
historian Shearjashub
Spooner
and Sofonisba
biographer, "This noble
lady of Cremona (born
about 1530), was one of
six sisters, all
amiable, and much
distinguished in arts
and letters. She
displayed a taste for
drawing at a very early
age, and soon became the
best pupil in the school
of Antonio Campi. One of
her early sketches, of a
boy caught with his hand
in the claw of a
lobster, with a little
girl laughing at his
plight, was in
possession of Vasari,
and by him esteemed
worthy of a place in a
volume which he had
filled with drawings by
the most famous masters
of that great age.
Portraiture was her
chief study; and
Vasari commends a
picture which he saw at
her father's house, of
three of the sisters,
and an ancient
housekeeper of the
family playing at chess,
as a work "painted with
so much skill and care,
that the figures wanted
only voice to appear
alive." He also praises
a portrait which she
painted of herself, and
presented to Pope Julius
III., who died in 1555,
which shows that she
must have attracted the
notice of princes while
yet in her girlhood. At
Milan, whither she
accompanied her father,
she painted the portrait
of the Duke of Sessa,
the Viceroy, who
rewarded her with four
pieces of brocade and
various rich gifts."
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