Elisabetta Sirani

Variant namesauktoriserad namnform: Elisabetta Sirani

DatesBiographical dates: 1638 - 1665 dead: dead 1665 born: born 1638

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BiographyBiography: Elisabetta Sirani was the daughter of the painter Giovanni Andrea Sirani, Guido Reni’s principal assistant. She received her first training from her father, and at a young age she took over and ran the family workshop. She was a prolific painter, famous for her rapid painting technique. Sirani specialized in small paintings for private use, commissioned by wealthy noble and royal patrons, including Grand Duke Cosimo III de’ Medici. Her canvases of mythological subjects and images of the Holy Family and the Virgin and Child, and above all her portraits of female saints and heroines, gained her international fame.

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