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Sofonisba's Lesson: A Renaissance Artist and Her Work

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Sofonisba's Lesson: A Renaissance Artist and Her Work - Cole, Michael W
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"Within a span of seven or eight years in the 1550s, the Italian painter Sofonisba Anguissola produced more self-portraits than any known painter before her had in a lifetime. She was the first known artist in history to take her parents and siblings as primary subject matter, and may have painted the first group portrait featuring only women. Cole examines Sofonisba's paintings as expressions of her relationships and networks, looking at why Sofonisba was able to become a great woman artist: at her father, who decided to ...

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Sofonisba's Lesson: A Renaissance Artist and Her Work 2020, Princeton University Press, Princeton

ISBN-13: 9780691198323

Hardcover