List of Italian Renaissance female artists

Marginal self-portrait of Maria Ormani, 1453.

List of Italian Renaissance female artists (Italian: Le donne pittrici del Rinascimento italiano) included painters, manuscript illustrators and sculptors who lived in Italy in 15-16th centuries.

List

15th century

• Catherine of Bologna (Caterina de' Vigri) (1413–1463) - nun, artist, saint
• Maria Ormani (1428–c.1470) - manuscript illustrator and nun
• Antonia Doni (Antonia di Paolo di Dono, Antonia Uccello) (1446-1491) - daughter of Paolo Uccello. Mentioned in documents as "pittoressa" - first usage of feminine term. Nun.
• Suor Barbara Ragnoni (15th century) - nun

16th century

• Eufrasia Burlamacchi (1482–1548) - manuscript illuminator, nun
• Properzia de' Rossi (1490-1530) - sculptor, the only woman to receive a biography in Vasari's Lives of the Artists.
• Teodora Danti (c.1498–c.1573) - painter, writer
• Plautilla Nelli (1524–1588) - nun
• Anguissola family:
  • Sofonisba Anguissola (c.1532–1625)
  • Elena Anguissola (c.1532–1584), painter and nun
  • Lucia Anguissola (c.1538 – c.1565)
• Irene di Spilimbergo (1540–1559) - painter and poet.
• Lucrezia Quistelli della Mirandola (1541-1594)
• Diana Scultori (1547-1612) - engraver, daughter of the sculptor and engraver Giovanni Battista Ghisi. One of the first female engravers.
• Mariangiola Criscuolo (c.1548–1630) - daughter of painter Giovanni Filippo Criscuolo.
• Barbara Longhi (1552-1638) - daughter of painter Luca Longhi
• Lavinia Fontana (1552-1614) - daughter of painter Prospero Fontana. First female career artist in Western Europe as she relied on commissions for her income.
• Marietta Robusti (Tintoretta) (c.1560–1590) - daughter of Tintoretto
• Fede Galizia (1578–1630) - pioneering still life Renaissance painter
• Maria Angelica Razzi (16th century) - nun, sculptor

Late years (Baroque)

• Isabella Parasole (c.1570–c.1620), wood engraver
• Fede Galizia (1578 – c. 1630) - still-life painter, daughter of painter Nunzio Galizia.
• Chiara Varotari (1584–1663)
• Lucrina Fetti (c.1590–1651) - daughter of painter Pietro Fetti, nun
• Angelica Veronica Airola (c.1590–1670) - nun
• Caterina Ginnasi (1590–1660)
• Artemisia Gentileschi (1593–c.1656)
• Orsola Maddalena Caccia (1596–1676) - nun, religious painter, daughter of Guglielmo Caccia.
• Maria Eufrasia della Croce (1597–1676) - nun, painter
• Arcangela Paladini (1599–1622)
• Giovanna Garzoni (1600-1670)

Bibliography

• Ambrogio Levati. Donne illustri. 1822
• Gadol, Joan Kelly, Did Women have a Renaissance?, in: Renate Bridenthal, Claudia Koonz, Becoming Visible. Women in European History, Boston 1970.
• Graziani, Irene (2021). Le Signore dell'Arte. Storie di donne tra '500 e '600.
• King, Margaret L., Simpson, Catherine L., Women of the Renaissance, University of Chicago Press 1991.
• Garrard, Mary D., Angouissola and the Problem of the Woman Artist, Renaissance Quarterly 24, 1994.
• Zwanger, Meryl, Women and Art in the Renaissance, in: Sister, Columbia University 1995/6.
• Judith Brown. Gender and Society in Renaissance Italy (Women And Men In History). 1998
• Letizia Panizza, Women in Italian Renaissance Culture and Society. Oxford, 2000. ISBN 1-900755-09-2.
• Mary Rogers, Paola Tinagli. Women in Italy, 1350—1650.. Manchester University Press, 2005
• Gaia Servadio. Renaissance woman. 2005
• Nicholson, Elizabeth S. G. "Diana Scultori." Italian Women Artists from Renaissance to Baroque: National Museum of Women in the Arts. Milano: Skira, 2007
• Anne Sutherland Harris. Sofonisba, Lavinia, Artemisia, and Elisabetta: Thirty Years after Women Artists, 1550-1950. 2017
• Robin, Diana Maury, Larsen, Anne R. and Levin, Carole. Encyclopedia of women in the Renaissance: Italy, France, and England. — ABC-CLIO, Inc, 2007. — P. 160—161.
• Sheila Barker. Women Artists in Early Modern Italy: Careers, Fame, and Collectors. 2016

See also

• List of Italian women artists