Lucia anguissola biography
Lucia anguissola biography
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Lucia Anguissola
Italian artist (1536 or 1538 – c. 1565-1568)
Lucia Anguissola | |
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Lucia Anguissola, Self-Portrait, 1557, Castello Sforzesco, Milan | |
| Born | Lucia Anguissola 1536 or 1538 Cremona, Italy |
| Died | c.
1565, before 1568 |
| Nationality | Italian |
| Known for | Painting |
| Movement | Italian Mannerism |
Lucia Anguissola (1536 or 1538 – c.
1565–1568) was an Italian Mannerist painter of the late Renaissance.[1] Born in Cremona, Italy, she was the third daughter among the seven children of Amilcare Anguissola and Bianca Ponzoni.
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Her father was a member of the Genoese minor nobility and encouraged his five daughters to develop artistic skills alongside their humanist education. Lucia most likely trained with her renowned eldest sister Sofonisba Anguissola.[1] Her paintings, mainly portraits, are similar in style and technique to those of her sister.
Contemporary critics considered her skill exemplary; according to seventeenth-century b