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Article: Anguissola, Sofonisba (c. 1532–1625)
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ANGUISSOLA, SOFONISBA (c. 1532
–
1625)
ANGUISSOLA, SOFONISBA
(c. 1532
–
1625), Italian portrait painter. The daughter of Amilcare Anguissola and Bianca Ponzone of Cremona, Sofonisba Anguissola enjoyed international recognition during her lifetime. In the history of art her name has appeared with regularity since Marco Girolamo Vida counted her, at age fifteen, among the most significant painters in
Cremonensium Orationes III Adversus Papienses in Controversia Principatus
(1550), and Giorgio Vasari praised her as "miraculous" in the second edition of
The Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects
(1568). Her known works include small devotional pictures, ...