by Elaine Luther | Jul 29, 2021 | Artists
This post was written for kids. Artemisia Gentileschi was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, (which was right after the Renaissance) who painted stories from the Bible as well as portraits. To be an artist back in the 1500s and 1600s, as a woman, was really...
by Elaine Luther | Jul 8, 2019 | Artists
Sofanisba Anguissola was a portrait painter during the Italian Renaissance. (You may have heard of other Renaissance painters such as Artemesia Gentileschi, Michangelo and Leonardo DaVinci.) She was born in 1532 in Cremona, Italy to a family of minor nobility. Her...
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