Sofonisba anguissola
Sofonisba anguissola
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Self-Portrait*
Self-Portrait*
"Simplicity and modesty inspire this little portrait. The round and clear eyes create a dialogue with the viewer of this portrait. The gaze is frank, the chin strong-willed, the hairdo austere, the dress modest. The collar of the light white shirt swells at the neck, in small soft folds. The girl wears no jewels. A note of femininity escapes in the small curl that descends next to the ear.
The date is only one year earlier than that of the Game of Chess by the same painter, but at first sight this portrait seems to belong to a much more immature artistic phase. Some imperfections are also due to an old cleaning, too vigorous, which has removed the glazes. Anguissola's father, in sending the gift to Duke Ercole d'Este, apologized for certain inaccuracies, due to the fact that the portrait had been created looking in the mirror: in fact the hand seems slightly deformed. Sofonisba wears the same dress and has the same hairstyle and expression in her Self-Portrait at a Spinet, kept in Naples."
"Self-Portrait is a small oil-on-panel painting by the Italian artist Sofonisba Anguissola, signed and dated 1554 on the open book held by the artist. The portrait is now in the Kunsthistorisches Museum, in Vienna.
It was recorded as hanging in Vienna's Belvedere Gallery, already attributed to Anguissola but initially thought to be a portrait of infanta Isabella Clara Eugenia on her betrothal to her cousin Albert VII, Archduke of Austria which had therefore ended up in Vienna. Flavio Carioli also came to this conclusion, but in 1885 Adolfo Venturi cited a letter sent to Ercole II d'Este, Duke of Ferrara in March 1556 by Anguissola's father with two paintings by her, a self-portrait intended for the duke's daughter Lucrezia and a Cleopatra (after a drawing by Michelangelo, probably a folio now in the Casa Buonarroti). Venturi also recorded that in 1603-1604 cardinal Alessandro d'Este gave some of his paintings to Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor. Though no inventory of the paintings given to Rudolf survives, Venturi theorises that this self-portrait was one of them and the theory is accepted by all other art historians."
Game of Chess with Portraits of the Painter's Three Sisters and a Servant*
Game of Chess with Portraits of the Painter's Three Sisters and a Servant*
Infanta Catalina Micaela (Lady with an Ermine)
Infanta Catalina Micaela (Lady with an Ermine)
Self-Portrait Painting the Madonna
Self-Portrait Painting the Madonna
Portrait of the Artist's Sister Minerva
Portrait of the Artist's Sister Minerva
Bernardino Campi painting Sofonisba Anguissola*
Bernardino Campi painting Sofonisba Anguissola*
Amilcare Anguissola, the painter's father, with her siblings Minerva and Astrubale*
Amilcare Anguissola, the painter's father, with her siblings Minerva and Astrubale*
Alessandro Farnese (1545-1592),
Alessandro Farnese (1545-1592),
Duke of Parma
Duke of Parma
Philip II (1527-1598)
Philip II (1527-1598)
Portrait of Bianca Ponzoni Anguissola, the Artist's Mother (Portrait of a Young Woman)
Portrait of Bianca Ponzoni Anguissola, the Artist's Mother (Portrait of a Young Woman)
Self Portrait at the Spinet
Self Portrait at the Spinet
Elizabeth of Valois (1545-1568)
Elizabeth of Valois (1545-1568)
Portrait of Marquess Massimiliano Stampa
Portrait of Marquess Massimiliano Stampa
Portrait of the Artist's Sisters and Brother
Portrait of the Artist's Sisters and Brother
Little Boy bitten by a Crayfish and a smiling Girl
Little Boy bitten by a Crayfish and a smiling Girl
Self-portrait
Self-portrait
Sources
Sources
Sofonisba Anguissola (c. 1532-1625). 1554. Self-Portrait. painting. Place: Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria. https://library.artstor.org/asset/LESSING_ART_10310482923.
Cole, Michael W. Sofonisba's Lesson: A Renaissance Artist and Her Work. New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2019.
"Sofonisba Anguissola – Smarthistory". smarthistory.org. Retrieved 2023-11-05.
King, Margaret L.. The Renaissance in Europe. Norway: Laurence King Publishing, 2003. P. 246.
Liana De Girolami Cheney, Alicia Craig Faxon, Kathleen Lucey Russo, Self-portraits by women painters, Aldershot, Brookfield: Ashgate, 2000, p. 51, SBN IT\ICCU\MIL\0472038.
Joanna Woods-Marsden, Renaissance self-portraiture: the visual construction of identity and the social status of the artist, New Haven - London, Yale University Press, 1998, p.101-103, SBN IT\ICCU\UFI\0310798.
Sofonisba Anguissola (c. 1532-1625). 1555. Game of Chess with Portraits of the Painter's Three Sisters and a Servant. painting. Place: Muzeum Narodowe, Poznan, Poland. https://library.artstor.org/asset/LESSING_ART_10310483263.
Sofonisba Anguissola (c. 1532-1625). c. 1590. Infanta Catalina Micaela (Lady with an Ermine). painting. Place: Pollock House, Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom. https://library.artstor.org/asset/LESSING_ART_10310483401.
Sofonisba Anguissola (c. 1532-1625). 1556. Self-Portrait Painting the Madonna. painting. Place: Muzeum Zamek w Lancucie, Lancut, Poland. https://library.artstor.org/asset/LESSING_ART_10310483264.
Sofonisba Anguissola (Italian painter, ca. 1532-1625 ). creation: ca. 1550. Bernardino Campi painting Sofonisba Anguissola. painting, paintings. https://library.artstor.org/asset/AMCADIG_10312186651.
Sofonisba Anguissola (c. 1532-1625). c. 1559. Amilcare Anguissola, the painter's father, with her siblings Minerva and Astrubale. painting. Place: Nivaagards Malerisammling, Niva, Denmark. https://library.artstor.org/asset/LESSING_ART_10310483062.
Sofonisba Anguissola (c. 1532-1625). c. 1561. Alessandro Farnese (1545-1592), Duke of Parma. painting. Place: National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin, Ireland. https://library.artstor.org/asset/LESSING_ART_10310483374.
Sofonisba Anguissola, Sanchez, Coello, 1564-1612. c. 1568. Philip II (1527-1598). painting. Place: Museo del Prado, Museo del Prado, Madrid, Spain. https://library.artstor.org/asset/LESSING_ART_10310751889.
Sofonisba Anguissola. ca. 1557. Portrait of Bianca Ponzoni Anguissola, the Artist's Mother (Portrait of a Young Woman) [Bildnis einer jungen Frau]. painting. Place: Gemäldegalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, http://www.smb.museum/smb/home/index.php?lang=de. https://library.artstor.org/asset/BERLIN_DB_10313749843.
Sofonisba Anguissola. c. 1555-56. Self Portrait at the Spinet (Self Portrait at the Clavichord). painting. Place: Museo e gallerie nazionali di Capodimonte. https://library.artstor.org/asset/SCALA_ARCHIVES_1039779765.
Sofonisba Anguissola (c. 1532-1625). c. 1565. Elizabeth of Valois (1545-1568). painting. Place: Museo del Prado, Madrid, Spain. https://library.artstor.org/asset/LESSING_ART_10310483398.
Artist: Sofonisba Anguissola, Italian, ca. 1532-1625. 1557. Portrait of Marquess Massimiliano Stampa. portraits; paintings. Place: The Walters Art Museum, Acquired by Henry Walters, 1927, 37.1016, Chantel Collection, Lyon; Trotti, Paris [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; James Stillman and son C. C. Stillman, New York, prior to 1921 [mode of acquisition unknown]; Sale, American Art. https://library.artstor.org/asset/AWALTERSIG_10312546750.
Anguissola, Sofonisba, Italian, 1532-1625. ca. 1555. Portrait of the Artist's Sisters and Brother. https://library.artstor.org/asset/AHSC_ORPHANS_1071313544.
Copy after Sofonisba Anguissola. 17th Century. Little Boy bitten by a Crayfish and a smiling Girl (Asdrubale Being Bitten by a Crab). painting. Place: Musée Magnin, Dijon. https://library.artstor.org/asset/ARMNIG_10313259960.
Sofonisba Anguissola (Italian painter, ca. 1532-1625 ). creation: 1561. Self-portrait. painting, paintings. https://library.artstor.org/asset/AMCADIG_10312186652.
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