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This Round: Elisabetta Sirani 1638 - 1665

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Elisabetta Sirani was an Italian Baroque painter and printmaker who died in unexplained circumstances at the age of 27. She was a pioneering female artist in early modern Bologna, who established an academy for other women artists. Her studio was highly successful, partially due to the progressive atmosphere of Bologna, where women artists were accepted and celebrated. Later she established the first school of painting for women outside a convent in Europe, and made sure that it was inclusive to women, regardless of if they were daughters of painters or would otherwise have lessons made available.

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Elisabetta was also knowledgeable in music, one of the reasons being her brother-in-law was a musician. Although music was considered “the most detrimental to the modesty fitting to the sex, distracting them from their proper activity and occupation”, her reputation was never hurt by her interests in music.

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Choose your favourite Elisabetta Sirani painting

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1) Self-Portrait as Allegory of Painting (1658)

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2) Timoclea Kills the Captain of Alexander the Great (1659)

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3) Portrait of Vincenzo Ferdinando Ranuzzi as Amor (1663)

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4) Virgin and Child (1663)

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5) Allegory of Justice, Charity, and Prudence (1664)

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6) Portia Wounding Her Thigh (1664)

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7) Portrait of a Lady, half-length, as Pandora or Artemisia

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8) The Finding Of Moses

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DAUGHTER THREE

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The names are Italian, like Elisabetta‘s first name

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1) Vanda Orietta Rosalba Letizia Alina Clementina Jessica Venera Carmina Pierina Gilda
2) Greta Alessandra Carmela Liliana Cosima Vittoria Teresa Imma Pia Violetta Oliva
3) Nadia Antonia Giusi Adelina Patrizia Giannina Isabella Alma Rina Loretta Allegra
4) Gregoria Daniela Rosa Amore Marcellina Liliana Assunta Claretta Narcisa Bianca Domenica
5) Violante Tiziana Bibiana Michelangela Alberta Leandra Sara Robertina Virginia Serena Dionisia
6) Giulietta Olga Delfina Maria Benedetta Nella Giuseppina Luce Floriana Catia Filippa
7) Regina Giovannetta Nives Amedea Clarissa Marilena Clio Gloria Antonina Francesca
8) Crocetta Amaranta Rosalba Galilea Emiliana Lucetta Aureliana Catia Gabriella Annabella Isotta Fioralba

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formerly Belphoebe

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I am in the mood
to dissolve
in the sky.
- Virginia Woolf

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