Portrait of Bernardino Campi Painting Sofonisba Anguissola
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| Bernardino Campi Painting Sofonisba Anguissola | |
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| Artist | Sofonisba Anguissola |
| Year | late 1550s |
| Medium | oil on canvas |
| Location | Pinacoteca Nazionale, Siena |
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. Witney Chadwick has called this "the first historical example of the woman artist consciously collapsing the subject-object position."[1] Mary Garrard has noted that this is an important example of what Giorgio Vasari termed a "breathing likeness."[2]
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[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.