Milano, around 1578 – Milano, 1630 Daughter of the miniaturist Nunzio Galizia and born around 1578, Fede started working at 12 and she’s mostly known for her still lives, though she also worked on the human figure and religious subjects. She started working very early in her father’s workshop, and her first attributed work is […]
How do you explain it to normal people when a person meant the world to you but you lived an Ocean apart and you only met in real life a handful of times? I think you don’t, I don’t think you can, but I have to try. I met Jay Zallan during my first Autodesk […]
Ravenna, 1552 – Ravenna, 1638 Born from an accomplished painter and contemporary of the better-known Lavinia Fontana, Barbara took her first artistic steps in her father’s workshop. We know very little of her life: Vasari talks of her as you would for a child, though she was 14 years old at the time of his […]
Roma, 1595 – Mantova, 1651 If you’re passionate about baroque art, you might have heard of Domenico Fetti. Born in 1589, six years before his sister, he worked for the Gonzagas and Mantova’s churches are literally littered with his work, from the Cathedral’s apse to Sant’Orsola. He’s often described as a naturalist, influenced by both […]
Firenze, 1524 – Firenze, 1588 It is well known that one of the few ways you had to live as an artist in the XVI Century was by joining a nunnery. If you had the misfortune of being a woman, that is. Some painters had the luxury of founding their own version of a monastery, […]
Florence, 1541 – Unknown, 1594 Lucrezia was born in Florence from a foreign noble family who had come to Tuscany to enter the Medici’s court: her father was Alfonso Quistelli della Mirandola, a judge, and Giulia Santi, daughter from a long line of humanists and authors. Vasari mentions her as “accomplished in both painting and […]