Bernardino Campi Painting Sofonisba Anguissola is an oil on canvas painting from the late 1550s by one of the most important woman artists of the Italian Renaissance, Sofonisba Anguissola. It is a double portrait in which Anguissola has painted a self-portrait as if it were a canvas being painted by her teacher, Bernardino Campi. Despite not being physically present in the scene, Anguissola established herself as the primary subject of the piece by making the self-portrait appear larger than the artist.[1] Witney Chadwick has called this "the first historical example of the woman artist consciously collapsing the subject-object position."[2] Mary Garrard has noted that this is an important example of what Giorgio Vasari termed a "breathing likeness."[3]
| Bernardino Campi Painting Sofonisba Anguissola | |
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| Artist | Sofonisba Anguissola |
| Year | late 1550s |
| Medium | oil on canvas |
| Location | Pinacoteca Nazionale, Siena |
Notes
edit- ^ Garrard, Mary D. (1994). "Here's Looking at Me: Sofonisba Anguissola and the Problem of the Woman Artist". Renaissance Quarterly. 47 (3): 562 – via JSTOR.
- ^ Chadwick, Whitney (1990). Women, Art and Society. London: Thames and Hudson. p. 70.
- ^ Garrard, Mary. "Here's Looking at Me: Sofonisba Anguissola and the Problem of the Woman Artist". Renaissance Quarterly. 47 (3): 556–622. doi:10.2307/2863021. JSTOR 2863021.
References
edit- Whitney Chadwick (1990). Women, Art and Society. London: Thames and Hudson.
- Mary Garrard. "Here's Looking at Me: Sofonisba Anguissola and the Problem of the Woman Artist." Renaissance Quarterly 47 (3):556-662.