Art Movement: Italian Renaissance (Late Renaissance / Mannerist tendencies)

Artist

Sofonisba Anguissola

Sofonisba Anguissola stands as one of the most extraordinary figures in the history of Western art—not only for her artistic achievement, but for the barriers she overcame and the new possibilities she created for women artists. In an age when professional painting was dominated almost entirely by men and tightly bound to guild systems, workshop…