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Elisabetta Sirani - Italian Painter

Italian painter, she was also a musician and poet who focused on religious and historical scenes. She died at 27, possibly poisoned (her father thought so, but a court didn't agree).

Elisabetta Sirani
Elisabetta Sirani biography - a profile of Elisabetta Sirani, well-known Renaissance painter and art teacher.

Elisabetta Sirani - Image Gallery
Pictures of Elisabetta Sirani paintings. Elisabetta Sirani was a Renaissance painter, one of few women to become well known and financially successful from their art.

Women Artists: Renaissance and Baroque Painters
On this site: an overview of women painters of the 16th-17th centuries, including a list of many of the female painters of the period.

The Holy Family with St. Elizabeth and St. John the Baptist
Image of an etching by Elisabetta Sirani, in the National Museum of Women in the Arts.

Elisabetta Sirani
From the National Museum of Women in the Arts (Washington, D.C.), a biography of Italian artist Elisabetta Sirani. She was part of the 2007 exhibit, Italian Women Artists from Renaissance to Baroque, and the 1990-91 exhibit, Four Centuries of Women's Art: The National Museum of Women in the Arts.

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