| Anguissola,
Sofonisba (b. ca. 1530, Cremona, d. 1625, Palermo) |
| Italian portrait painter, one of six painter sisters from Cremona. She was the first woman artist to achieve international renown, being called to Spain by Philip II and visited by Van Dyck in Genoa in 1623, when she was in her nineties. Her self-portraits and portraits of her family are considered her finest works; they are somewhat stiff, but can have great charm. |