Elisabetta Sirani
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Elisabetta Sirani (1638 – 1665) was an Italian painter whose father was the painter Giovanni Andrea Sirani of the School of Bologna, and the principal assistant of Guido Reni. She died at the age of 27.
She painted an Assumption at the Parish Church of Borgo Panigale. Also a Saint Eustache, and Judith with the Head of Holofernes (Burghley House, Stamford, England); Baptism of Christ (1658); and Madonna with child and Infant Saint John (Museo Civico, Pesaro); Saint Jerome (Pinacoteca Nazionale, Bologna), and Portrait of Anna Maria Ranuzzi.
Born January 8, 1638. Died August 25, 1665. Had two sisters, mother, and father. Painted Virgin and Child, self portraits, and many more.
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- Bohn, Babette, Female self-portraiture in early modern Bologna, Renaissance Studies Vol.18 No.2 pp.239-286
